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SUMMARY:Presentation:Aniruddha Dutta: The Vernacular(ized) Queer: Kothis\, Hijras\, and LGBTQ Politics in India
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1990s\, LGBTQ identities and movements have gained visibility in the Indian public sphere and pushed the state to concede some degree of rights and recognition. This talk explores how these developments have resulted in selective and constrained forms of representation and upward mobility for non-elite\, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis and hijras\, an overlapping spectrum of rans feminine people often assigned male at birth. Drawing on my forthcoming book Globalizing through the Vernacular: Kothis\, Hijras\, and the Making of Queer and Trans Identities in India\, I will explore how these communities facilitate the transregional expansion of organized queer politics\, yet often remain irreducible to emerging identity categories and become subordinated through linguistic and scalar hierarchies that reinforce class and caste inequities within and beyond LGBTQ communities. To understand this process\, the book offers the analytic of ‘vernacularization’ – not in its usual sense as the translation of global/transnational discourses into the local or vernacular\, but as the positioning of certain communities and discourses as local/vernacular in the first place. The talk will explore how this process denies vernacularized communities an equal role in (trans)national LGBTQ politics and delegitimizes or effaces articulations of gender/sexual difference that contravene dominant \nunderstandings of gender/sexual identity aligned with transnational capitalism\, liberalism\, caste\, and/or nationalism. Simultaneously\, it will explore how non-elite communities rearticulate dominant LGBTQ discourses in more liberatory ways.\n\nAniruddha Dutta is an Associate Professor of Gender\, Women’s\, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. Dutta’s research interests include transnational sexualities\, globalization\, development\, political economy\, and the institutionalization of gender and sexual politics in India. Their work has appeared in journals such as *Transgender Studies Quarterly*\, *QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking*\, *International Feminist Journal of Politics*\, *Feminist Review*\, *Gender and History*\, and *South Asian History and Culture*. Dutta’s book *Globalizing through the Vernacular: Kothis\, Hijras and the Making of Queer and Trans Identities in India*\, is scheduled for publication with Bloomsbury Academic in late 2024. Dutta also works as a volunteer and advisor with several collectives of trans and gender non-conforming communities such as kothis and hijras in eastern India.
UID:126650-21857477@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126650
CLASS:PUBLIC
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CATEGORIES:Activism,advocacy,asia,Asian Languages And Cultures,Author,Book,Books,Cosponsored Event,Culture,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,feminism,free,gay,gay culture,gender,Gender Equality,gender studies,global,graduate students,humanities,Inclusion,India,Inequality,institute for research on women and gender,intercultural,international,irwg,lecture,lgbt,lgbtq,lgbtq issues,literature,multicultural,queer,queer theory,research,sex,sexuality,Social Impact,social inequality,social justice,Social Rights,south asia,South Asian Studies,Talk,transgender,Women's And Gender Studies,women's rights,women's studies
LOCATION:Lane Hall - 2239
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DTSTAMP:20241002T164428
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241004T133000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Aniruddha Dutta: The Vernacular(ized) Queer: Kothis\, Hijras\, and LGBTQ Politics in India
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1990s\, LGBTQ identities and movements have gained visibility in the Indian public sphere and pushed the state to concede some degree of rights and recognition. This talk explores how these developments have resulted in selective and constrained forms of representation and upward mobility for non-elite\, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis and hijras\, an overlapping spectrum of rans feminine people often assigned male at birth. Drawing on my forthcoming book Globalizing through the Vernacular: Kothis\, Hijras\, and the Making of Queer and Trans Identities in India\, I will explore how these communities facilitate the transregional expansion of organized queer politics\, yet often remain irreducible to emerging identity categories and become subordinated through linguistic and scalar hierarchies that reinforce class and caste inequities within and beyond LGBTQ communities. To understand this process\, the book offers the analytic of ‘vernacularization’ – not in its usual sense as the translation of global/transnational discourses into the local or vernacular\, but as the positioning of certain communities and discourses as local/vernacular in the first place. The talk will explore how this process denies vernacularized communities an equal role in (trans)national LGBTQ politics and delegitimizes or effaces articulations of gender/sexual difference that contravene dominant \nunderstandings of gender/sexual identity aligned with transnational capitalism\, liberalism\, caste\, and/or nationalism. Simultaneously\, it will explore how non-elite communities rearticulate dominant LGBTQ discourses in more liberatory ways.\n\nAniruddha Dutta is an Associate Professor of Gender\, Women’s\, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. Dutta’s research interests include transnational sexualities\, globalization\, development\, political economy\, and the institutionalization of gender and sexual politics in India. Their work has appeared in journals such as *Transgender Studies Quarterly*\, *QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking*\, *International Feminist Journal of Politics*\, *Feminist Review*\, *Gender and History*\, and *South Asian History and Culture*. Dutta’s book *Globalizing through the Vernacular: Kothis\, Hijras and the Making of Queer and Trans Identities in India*\, is scheduled for publication with Bloomsbury Academic in late 2024. Dutta also works as a volunteer and advisor with several collectives of trans and gender non-conforming communities such as kothis and hijras in eastern India.
UID:126650-21858300@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126650
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,advocacy,asia,Asian Languages And Cultures,Author,Book,Books,Cosponsored Event,Culture,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,feminism,free,gay,gay culture,gender,Gender Equality,gender studies,global,graduate students,humanities,Inclusion,India,Inequality,institute for research on women and gender,intercultural,international,irwg,lecture,lgbt,lgbtq,lgbtq issues,literature,multicultural,queer,queer theory,research,sex,sexuality,Social Impact,social inequality,social justice,Social Rights,south asia,South Asian Studies,Talk,transgender,Women's And Gender Studies,women's rights,women's studies
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20240912T090633
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241004T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | The Vernacular(ized) Queer: Kothis\, Hijras\, and LGBTQ Politics in India
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1990s\, LGBTQ identities and movements have gained visibility in the Indian public sphere and pushed the state to concede some degree of rights and recognition. This talk explores how these developments have resulted in selective and constrained forms of representation and upward mobility for non-elite\, non-metropolitan communities such as *kothis* and *hijras*\, an overlapping spectrum of trans feminine people often assigned male at birth. Drawing on my forthcoming book *Globalizing through the Vernacular: Kothis\, Hijras\, and the Making of Queer and Trans Identities in India*\, I will explore how these communities facilitate the transregional expansion of organized queer politics\, yet often remain irreducible to emerging identity categories and become subordinated through linguistic and scalar hierarchies that reinforce class and caste inequities within and beyond LGBTQ communities. To understand this process\, the book offers the analytic of ‘vernacularization’ – not in its usual sense as the translation of global/transnational discourses into the local or vernacular\, but as the positioning of certain communities and discourses as local/vernacular in the first place. The talk will explore how this process denies vernacularized communities an equal role in (trans)national LGBTQ politics and delegitimizes or effaces articulations of gender/sexual difference that contravene dominant understandings of gender/sexual identity aligned with transnational capitalism\, liberalism\, caste\, and/or nationalism. Simultaneously\, it will explore how non-elite communities rearticulate dominant LGBTQ discourses in more liberatory ways.\n\nAniruddha Dutta is an Associate Professor of Gender\, Women’s\, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. Dutta’s research interests include transnational sexualities\, globalization\, development\, political economy\, and the institutionalization of gender and sexual politics in India. Their work has appeared in journals such as *Transgender Studies Quarterly*\, *QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking*\, *International Feminist Journal of Politics*\, *Feminist Review*\, *Gender and History*\, and *South Asian History and Culture*. Dutta’s book *Globalizing through the Vernacular: Kothis\, Hijras and the Making of Queer and Trans Identities in India*\, is scheduled for publication with Bloomsbury Academic in late 2024.  Dutta also works as a volunteer and advisor with several collectives of trans and gender non-conforming communities such as *kothis* and *hijras* in eastern India.\n\n   All CSAS lectures are free and open to the public.\n   \n   *Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.*
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/125938
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:india,LGBT,south asia,south asian
LOCATION:Lane Hall - Room 2239
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