Project Description Doctoral Dissertation Research— Governing Sexualities: Law, Biopower, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
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چکیده
By examining discursive struggles around sexuality in contemporary India, I show how and when the legal status of sexuality becomes used by individuals and communities to make political claims about their relations in and to the post-colonial nation-state. The ‘modern’ legal system introduced by British colonial rule installed state regulation of homosexuality and sex work in India. I look at when and how homosexuals and sex workers challenge these regulatory discourses and practices, considering these as post-colonial contestations over the legal and cultural meanings of “tradition” and “modernity.” I ask two primary questions: First, how do the legal and political challenges of these two groups become articulated in the face of local needs and practices and in the context of globalization and transnational concern about HIV/AIDS; and second, what do these challenges reveal in general about state power over how human bodies are used (biopower) in a postcolonial context and in specific about the connections between sexuality and modernity in the law at the national-level in India? By bringing modernity, biopower, sexuality into an analytical frame focused on state regulation, this study will contribute to feminist, queer, and critical legal studies.
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