DUTOYA, Virginie

doi:10.1080/14736489.2016.1165570

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DUTOYA, Virginie
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India Review. 2016-04, vol. 15, n° 2, p. 241-271

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In the last 20 years, research and academic writing on “non-heterosexual” lives, identifications, and sexualities have developed considerably in India, in a context where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and queer politics have become more and more visible in the public sphere. When it comes to gender and sexuality, researchers are often activists, and scholarship is highly political. In particular, by documenting non-heterosexual lives, practices, and groups, social scientists participate in the construction of social categories that can be mobilized in the public sphere. Using both Pierre Bourdieu’s and Stuart Hall’s views on representation as a discursive process by which representatives shape the group they claim to represent, this article contends that social scientists are engaged in a “work of representation” when it comes to LGBT and queer individuals and groups. Yet, this process is not without tensions, as there is a deep contradiction between the making of an “object of study” that is spoken about, and the promotion of a political subject, who can speak for him- or herself. Drawing on a corpus of about 45 academic publications on LGBT and queer people and issues in the last 25 years, this article explores the contentious discursive formation of “LGBT” and “queer” as analytical and political categories.< Réduire

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Political participation

Political activity

Human sexuality

Academic discourse

LGBT people

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2016.1165570

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(New) Political Representative Claims: A Global View (France, Germany, Brazil, China, India) - ANR-15-FRAL-0010

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Centre Emile Durkheim - Science politique et sociologie comparatives (CED) - UMR 5116