Chaitanya Lakkimsetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chaitanya Lakkimsetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chaitanya |
| FAMILY NAME | Lakkimsetti |
| SIGNATURE | LAKKIMSETTI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gender Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hang the Rapists Immediately
This essay focuses on increasing public demands for instant justice in response to sexual violence in contemporary India. Through close analysis of a specific event—the brutal 2019 gang rape and murder of a female veterinarian in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, public demands for the instant killing of the suspect men, and subsequent police killings of four male suspects—I show how in the aftermath of serious crimes against women, rape and…
Legalizing Sex
How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in the Indian public sphere in the mid-1980s when the rise of HIV/AIDS became a frightening issue. The Indi…
Legalizing Sex
Based on twenty months of ethnographic research, the book looks at the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people in India have become visible in the Indian public sphere since the mid-1980s, when AIDS became an issue in India. Whereas sexual minorities were previously stigmatized and criminalized because of the threat of the HIV/AI…
Legalizing Sex
This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in the Indian public sphere in the mid-1980s when the rise of HIV/AIDS became a frightening issue. The Indian state started to fold these groups into national HIV/AIDS policies as "high-risk" groups in an attempt to create …
“Home and beautiful things”
This article examines the controversy surrounding women’s sexual labor of dancing in the city of Mumbai in the western state of Maharashtra, India. Whereas much of the debate around the dance bars focuses on bar dancers’ livelihood and right to work, I turn the discussion to the realm of desire and consumption to show how intimate labor is connected to class aspirations. Using legal, media and cultural sources, I suggest that the intimate labor i…
Sexual States
From Dance Bars to the Streets”
Recent debates around bar dancing in Mumbai shed light on the connection between class, space, and intimate labor in a global city. Dance bars emerged as morally suspect spaces alongside the decline of Mumbai as an industrial city and its development as a global financial and entertainment capital. For a brief period, women bar dancers were able to make a living in the peripheral spaces that opened up during Mumbai's transformation into a global …
Empowered Criminals and Global Subjects
“HIV Is Our Friend”
This article examines how the AIDS epidemic reorganized the Indian state’s relationship with women in prostitution. While sex workers previously faced legal regulations that criminalized and stigmatized them, they have now become important partners in the public health projects of the Indian state. As the HIV/AIDS epidemic became urgent, the Indian state and transnational HIV programs addressed sex workers as agents for inculcating behavioral cha…
Sexual States
From Dance Bars to the Streets”
Recent debates around bar dancing in Mumbai shed light on the connection between class, space, and intimate labor in a global city. Dance bars emerged as morally suspect spaces alongside the decline of Mumbai as an industrial city and its development as a global financial and entertainment capital. For a brief period, women bar dancers were able to make a living in the peripheral spaces that opened up during Mumbai's transformation into a global …
Empowered Criminals and Global Subjects
“HIV Is Our Friend”
This article examines how the AIDS epidemic reorganized the Indian state’s relationship with women in prostitution. While sex workers previously faced legal regulations that criminalized and stigmatized them, they have now become important partners in the public health projects of the Indian state. As the HIV/AIDS epidemic became urgent, the Indian state and transnational HIV programs addressed sex workers as agents for inculcating behavioral cha…
From Dance Bars to the Streets”
Recent debates around bar dancing in Mumbai shed light on the connection between class, space, and intimate labor in a global city. Dance bars emerged as morally suspect spaces alongside the decline of Mumbai as an industrial city and its development as a global financial and entertainment capital. For a brief period, women bar dancers were able to make a living in the peripheral spaces that opened up during Mumbai's transformation into a global …
Empowered Criminals and Global Subjects
“Home and beautiful things”
This article examines the controversy surrounding women’s sexual labor of dancing in the city of Mumbai in the western state of Maharashtra, India. Whereas much of the debate around the dance bars focuses on bar dancers’ livelihood and right to work, I turn the discussion to the realm of desire and consumption to show how intimate labor is connected to class aspirations. Using legal, media and cultural sources, I suggest that the intimate labor i…
Sexual States
Legalizing Sex
How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in the Indian public sphere in the mid-1980s when the rise of HIV/AIDS became a frightening issue. The Indi…
Legalizing Sex
Based on twenty months of ethnographic research, the book looks at the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people in India have become visible in the Indian public sphere since the mid-1980s, when AIDS became an issue in India. Whereas sexual minorities were previously stigmatized and criminalized because of the threat of the HIV/AI…
Legalizing Sex
This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in the Indian public sphere in the mid-1980s when the rise of HIV/AIDS became a frightening issue. The Indian state started to fold these groups into national HIV/AIDS policies as "high-risk" groups in an attempt to create …
Hang the Rapists Immediately
This essay focuses on increasing public demands for instant justice in response to sexual violence in contemporary India. Through close analysis of a specific event—the brutal 2019 gang rape and murder of a female veterinarian in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, public demands for the instant killing of the suspect men, and subsequent police killings of four male suspects—I show how in the aftermath of serious crimes against women, rape and…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sex work and related issues (6 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · State (computer science) (4 works) · Citizenship (3 works)