Sameera Chauhan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4207787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sameera Chauhan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sameera |
| FAMILY NAME | Chauhan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAUHAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’
The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial Punjab – the ‘Garrison State’ – and the casting of the ‘prostitute’ as a colonial bogeyman and vector of disea…
The Homo Sacer
India’s legal framework for sex work occupies a persistent paradox: sex work itself is not illegal, yet the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (ITPA, 1986) criminalises virtually every activity that sustains it. This article argues that this paradox is not legislative inconsistency but structural logic – one that reproduces, in postcolonial form, the colonial dispensation of moral surveillance and spatial exclusion. Drawing on Agamben’s concept of …
Managing Sex, Safeguarding the Soldier
Managing sex was an important part of Britain's imperial project in the colonies. Using a wide range of archival materials and examining the political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this study delves into the colonial military enterprise of regulating sexual recreation for British troops, and the processes through which the sexualised native woman was configured in colonial Punjab. I argue that paradoxical attempts to …
Managing Sex, Safeguarding the Soldier
Managing sex was an important part of Britain's imperial project in the colonies. Using a wide range of archival materials and examining the political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this study delves into the colonial military enterprise of regulating sexual recreation for British troops, and the processes through which the sexualised native woman was configured in colonial Punjab. I argue that paradoxical attempts to …
Managing Sex, Safeguarding the Soldier
Managing sex was an important part of Britain's imperial project in the colonies. Using a wide range of archival materials and examining the political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this study delves into the colonial military enterprise of regulating sexual recreation for British troops, and the processes through which the sexualised native woman was configured in colonial Punjab. I argue that paradoxical attempts to …
Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’
The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial Punjab – the ‘Garrison State’ – and the casting of the ‘prostitute’ as a colonial bogeyman and vector of disea…
The Homo Sacer
India’s legal framework for sex work occupies a persistent paradox: sex work itself is not illegal, yet the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (ITPA, 1986) criminalises virtually every activity that sustains it. This article argues that this paradox is not legislative inconsistency but structural logic – one that reproduces, in postcolonial form, the colonial dispensation of moral surveillance and spatial exclusion. Drawing on Agamben’s concept of …
Colonialism (3 works) · Politics (2 works) · Abandonment (legal) (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (1 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (1 works) · Harassment (1 works)