[Urbanstudy] SociologySeminar at SAU: Svati P. Shah

[Diya Mehra]

The Department of Sociology, South Asian University cordially invites you
to a seminar:



The Critique of the Neoliberal Queer Subject in the Era of Transnational
LGBT Rights: Cities, Class, and Sexuality Politics in India



By Dr. Svati P. Shah, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

University of Massachusetts, Amherst



The theoretical imbrications between cities and economic class provide a
critical frame for understanding LGBT politics in India in the contemporary
moment. Examining these politics, and the discourses of nation and
modernity that they produce, through their geographical valences offers an
understanding of the unique role of the urban imaginary in the discursive
production of sexuality and LGBT activism in India. At the same time, LGBT
rights are being taken up as a foreign policy issue, while the
transnationalization of queer studies brings with it the
transnationalization of the critique of the neoliberal queer subject. In
this talk, I aim to problematize the critique of the neoliberal queer
subject by disassembling the cognate moniker 'LGBT,' and by mapping the
transition of the queer figure from extra-national to urban elite over the
course of the rise of LGBT juridical recognition in India since the late
1990s.



Svati Shah's research covers the political economy of migration, sex work,
development, and urbanization in South Asia and South Asian diaspora.
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