Globalizing through the Vernacular

Kothis, Hijras, and the Making of Queer and Trans Identities in India

Aniruddha Dutta (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350382817 (ISBN)

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Globalizing through the Vernacular analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis and hijras, a spectrum of feminine-identified people usually assigned male at birth. Going beyond the well-known ‘third gender’ hijra community, this is the first book to study the discourses and practices of related but underrepresented groups like kothis and dhuranis in small-town and rural India while simultaneously examining their relation to and role within LGBTQ+ identity politics.

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the book demonstrates that non-elite groups facilitate the transregional expansion of organized queer politics and become more consolidated as gender/sexual identities in the process. Yet, they often remain irreducible to emerging identity categories and become subordinated through hierarchies of scale and language that serve to contain such communities and related discourses as local and vernacular. The book shows how this process, in effect, denies them an equal role in transnational LGBT politics; reinforces class/caste hierarchies within and beyond queer communities; and delegitimizes or erases articulations of gender/sexual difference that contravene dominant understandings of gender/sexual identity aligned with transnational capitalism, liberalism, or nationalism. Simultaneously, it reveals how non-elite communities rearticulate dominant identity categories in more equal, liberatory ways.

Aniruddha Dutta is Associate Professor at University of Iowa, USA. Their essays on gender and sexual politics in India have appeared in journals such as Transgender Studies Quarterly, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Gender and History.

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Vernacularization
1. The Scalar Emergence of the Hijra
2. Kothi and the Cartography of MSM
3. Vernacularization and Non/Linear Gender Among Kothis
4. Rupantarkami Narratives and the Attempted Standardization of Trans Interiority
5. Refashioning Transgender: Pluralization and Re-Vernacularization
6. Cis/Trans Divides and the Partial Erasure of the Kothi
Afterword: Afterlives of the Vernacluarized
Notes
Glossary
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.11.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9781350382817 / 9781350382817
Zustand	Neuware