Lesbian in/from South Asia: erotic and political geographies
{"This":[0],"special":[1],"issue":[2,72,178,220],"emerged":[3],"from":[4],"a":[5,205],"two-pronged":[6],"question:":[7],"what":[8,18],"it":[9,19],"means":[10,20],"to":[11,21,53,68,84,144,161,181,250],"be":[12,22],"lesbian":[13,112,136,183,209,237,259],"in/from":[14],"South":[15,110,158,257],"Asia":[16],"and":[17,35,46,60,65,99,105,130,140,164,175,188,198,217,227,231],"so":[23],"in":[24,48,66,138,169,212,256],"the":[25,56,71,74,177,201,228,251],"contemporary":[26,29],"moment.":[27],"The":[28,87,219],"is":[30],"marked":[31],"by":[32,187],"both":[33,63],"enduring":[34],"emergent":[36],"forms":[37],"of":[38,42,58,76,79,103,108,172,193,208,253],"precarities,":[39],"changing":[40],"strategies":[41],"survival,":[43,173],"intensified":[44],"digitalization":[45],"transformations":[47],"global":[49,96,120],"queer":[50,97,121],"politics.":[51],"Seeking":[52],"open":[54],"up":[55],"ideas":[57],"\\"lesbian\\"":[59],"\\"South":[61],"Asia\\"":[62],"individually":[64],"relation":[67],"each":[69],"other,":[70],"underscores":[73],"inadequacy":[75],"singular":[77],"modes":[78],"identity,":[80],"territory":[81],"or":[82,118],"politics":[83,98],"apprehend":[85],"either.":[86],"contributions":[88],"broadly":[89],"engage":[90],"with":[91,95],"two":[92],"valences:":[93],"negotiations":[94,126],"locally":[100],"situated":[101],"practices":[102],"solidarity":[104],"care.":[106],"Instead":[107],"positioning":[109],"Asian":[111,159,258],"experiences":[113,238],"as":[114],"either":[115],"neatly":[116],"adopting":[117],"rejecting":[119],"frameworks,":[122],"they":[123],"analyze":[124],"everyday":[125],"which":[127],"appropriate,":[128],"contest":[129],"rework":[131],"such":[132],"frameworks.":[133],"They":[134],"situate":[135],"subjectivities":[137,184],"socio-historically":[139],"materially":[141],"specific":[142],"conditions":[143,171],"imagine":[145],"political":[146],"possibility":[147],"beyond":[148],"universalist":[149],"paradigms":[150],"while":[151],"simultaneously":[152],"resisting":[153],"nationalist":[154],"closures":[155],"that":[156,234],"reduce":[157],"contexts":[160],"inherently":[162],"coherent":[163],"culturally":[165],"static":[166],"ones.":[167],"Anchored":[168],"immediate":[170],"belonging":[174],"futurity,":[176],"pays":[179],"attention":[180,249],"how":[182],"are":[185],"produced":[186],"themselves":[189],"shape":[190,235],"intersecting":[191],"structures":[192],"caste,":[194],"class,":[195],"religion,":[196],"race":[197],"gender.":[199],"Collectively,":[200],"articles":[202],"call":[203],"for":[204,241,246],"pluriversal":[206],"understanding":[207],"lives":[210],"grounded":[211],"partial":[213],"connections,":[214],"transversal":[215],"solidarities":[216],"differences.":[218],"reflects":[221],"on":[222],"its":[223],"uneven":[224],"geographic":[225],"representation":[226],"institutional,":[229],"linguistic":[230],"epistemological":[232],"inequalities":[233],"whose":[236],"become":[239],"available":[240],"scholarly":[242],"circulation,":[243],"thereby":[244],"calling":[245],"greater":[247],"methodological":[248],"geographies":[252],"knowledge":[254],"production":[255],"studies.":[260]}
Authors
- Adnan Hossain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4630-5964)
- K L Dua (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0335-929X)
- Shermal Wijewardene (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3434-7538)
- Sara Shroff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6990-2115)
- Niharika Banerjea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8329-5267)
Institutions
- University of Delhi (IN)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- O. P. Jindal Global University (IN)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- Global University (LB)
- University of Colombo (LK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Lesbian Studies
- Published
- 2026-09-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2026.2714665
- Primary Topic
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00