Sandeep Bakshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 643534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandeep Bakshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandeep |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakshi |
| SIGNATURE | BAKSHI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4095-0209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The New Racial Regime: Transnational Trajectories of Racial Oppression and Resistance
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory
Universalism and Queer Entanglements
Given the rapid homogenisation of queer discourse transnationally through its attachment to Euro-US avatars, it has become commonplace to consider the normativity of the queer-as-antinormative narrative as a “field-defining rule” (Wiegman and Wilson, 2015). Transnational feminist, queer and queer of colour theorisations have alerted to the coloniality of the queer universal that disregards the specific particularisms of race, migration and global…
Queeritude décoloniale: Quels enjeux, quelles possibilités
L’objectif de cet article est de problématiser la lecture traditionnelle de colonialité/modernité qui place la pensée eurocentrée dans une relation dialectique avec d’autres formes du savoir, tout en combinant l’apport des études décoloniales aux articulations queer transnationales. De façon plus précise, il propose une réévaluation des paradigmes queer contemporains dans le nord global (geopolitical west) et les régions géopolitiques considérées…
Translating queer
Are homophobia and transphobia legacies of colonialism or “native” practices in India ? What are appropriate words for homophobia and transphobia, and are there homophobic and transphobic words in Indian languages? Are words like queer and trans applicable in the Indian context or are they impositions of the global north? What are the appropriate “native” words for queer and trans peoples in Indian languages? If English functions as the imperial …
Decolonial Trajectories: Praxes and Challenges
In this special issue of Interventions, we consider the transnational articulations of the expansive site of decolonial studies. The disparate as well as interconnecting lines of reflection, traversing geopolitical and disciplinary borders, instructively allude to the trajectories of decolonial theorization. It is within these interstitial transnational sites that the Decolonizing Sexualities Network (DSN) emerged in the last decade by suturing q…
Decolonial Sexualities: Paola Bacchetta in conversation with Suhraiya Jivraj and Sandeep Bakshi
In this roundtable forum, decolonial dyke-queer theorist Paola Bacchetta begins with a discussion of the span of decolonial queer theorization as it gained momentum in several fields of critical inquiry. Connecting it to contemporary mobilizations – anti-imperial, decolonial, anti-racism, feminist, queer – appears in this scenario as one of its key constituent features. Understanding, critiquing and transforming relations of power emerges as a ne…
The Decolonial Eye/I: Decolonial Enunciations of Queer Diasporic Practices
Drawing upon decolonial enunciation and cultural practices, this essay gestures towards the development of a decolonial sensing of queer diasporic artmaking. The key focus of the essay is the crossing of queer and decolonial thinking. A sustained critical reflection on these two theoretical sites is crucial, in my view, to offer a fuller comprehension of acts, practices and, broadly, cultures. Decolonial thinkers such as Walter Mignolo deploy fra…
Writing Dissent
Book Review| June 01 2015 Writing Dissent: Making African Queernesses Visible Queer African Reader. Ekine, Sokari and Abbas, Hakima, eds. Dakar, Nairobi: Pambazuka Press and Fahamu Books, 2013. xiii + 454 pp. Sandeep Bakshi Sandeep Bakshi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 441–443. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2843263 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data…
Past matters: Queer contestations of colonial masculinity in Leslie de Noronha'sThe Dew Drop Innand Shyam Selvadurai'sCinnamon Gardens
Here, and Not Yet Here: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Queer, Trans, and Culture
To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded over the course of three weeks in an online forum and covered several important themes. First, participants engaged questions surrounding the meaning of queer, and its relationship to different cultural and linguistic contexts…
Achille Mbembe. Sortir de la Grande Nuit: Essai sur l'Afrique Décolonisée
Fractured Resistance: Queer Negotiations of the Postcolonial in R. Raj Rao's The Boyfriend
This essay assesses South Asian queer identity as it relates to the state of postcolonialism. It pays particular attention to the ways in which queerness engages with fractures of the heteropatriarchal nation. Focusing on R. Raj Rao's novel The Boyfriend (2003), I work contrary to the logic of romantic idealization that would position the postcolonial nation against repressive homophobic statutes of colonialism. My reading suggests that the postc…
A Comparative Analysis of Hijras and Drag Queens: The Subversive Possibilities and Limits of Parading Effeminacy and Negotiating Masculinity
Gender studies in general and queer studies in particular have stressed the notion of imitation, play, and performance of gender. In this essay I undertake a comparative analysis of the hijra and the drag queen in terms of the shared and disparate subversive possibilities and limits of the gendered performances they undertake. Studying the hijra alongside the drag queen will in no way mean conflating the two categories. Rather, I explore the cult…
A Comparative Analysis of Hijras and Drag Queens: The Subversive Possibilities and Limits of Parading Effeminacy and Negotiating Masculinity
Gender studies in general and queer studies in particular have stressed the notion of imitation, play, and performance of gender. In this essay I undertake a comparative analysis of the hijra and the drag queen in terms of the shared and disparate subversive possibilities and limits of the gendered performances they undertake. Studying the hijra alongside the drag queen will in no way mean conflating the two categories. Rather, I explore the cult…
Here, and Not Yet Here: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Queer, Trans, and Culture
To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded over the course of three weeks in an online forum and covered several important themes. First, participants engaged questions surrounding the meaning of queer, and its relationship to different cultural and linguistic contexts…
Achille Mbembe. Sortir de la Grande Nuit: Essai sur l'Afrique Décolonisée
Fractured Resistance: Queer Negotiations of the Postcolonial in R. Raj Rao's The Boyfriend
This essay assesses South Asian queer identity as it relates to the state of postcolonialism. It pays particular attention to the ways in which queerness engages with fractures of the heteropatriarchal nation. Focusing on R. Raj Rao's novel The Boyfriend (2003), I work contrary to the logic of romantic idealization that would position the postcolonial nation against repressive homophobic statutes of colonialism. My reading suggests that the postc…
A Comparative Analysis of Hijras and Drag Queens: The Subversive Possibilities and Limits of Parading Effeminacy and Negotiating Masculinity
Gender studies in general and queer studies in particular have stressed the notion of imitation, play, and performance of gender. In this essay I undertake a comparative analysis of the hijra and the drag queen in terms of the shared and disparate subversive possibilities and limits of the gendered performances they undertake. Studying the hijra alongside the drag queen will in no way mean conflating the two categories. Rather, I explore the cult…
Fractured Resistance: Queer Negotiations of the Postcolonial in R. Raj Rao's The Boyfriend
This essay assesses South Asian queer identity as it relates to the state of postcolonialism. It pays particular attention to the ways in which queerness engages with fractures of the heteropatriarchal nation. Focusing on R. Raj Rao's novel The Boyfriend (2003), I work contrary to the logic of romantic idealization that would position the postcolonial nation against repressive homophobic statutes of colonialism. My reading suggests that the postc…
Here, and Not Yet Here: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Queer, Trans, and Culture
To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded over the course of three weeks in an online forum and covered several important themes. First, participants engaged questions surrounding the meaning of queer, and its relationship to different cultural and linguistic contexts…
Achille Mbembe. Sortir de la Grande Nuit: Essai sur l'Afrique Décolonisée
Writing Dissent
Book Review| June 01 2015 Writing Dissent: Making African Queernesses Visible Queer African Reader. Ekine, Sokari and Abbas, Hakima, eds. Dakar, Nairobi: Pambazuka Press and Fahamu Books, 2013. xiii + 454 pp. Sandeep Bakshi Sandeep Bakshi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 441–443. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2843263 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data…
Past matters: Queer contestations of colonial masculinity in Leslie de Noronha'sThe Dew Drop Innand Shyam Selvadurai'sCinnamon Gardens
Translating queer
Are homophobia and transphobia legacies of colonialism or “native” practices in India ? What are appropriate words for homophobia and transphobia, and are there homophobic and transphobic words in Indian languages? Are words like queer and trans applicable in the Indian context or are they impositions of the global north? What are the appropriate “native” words for queer and trans peoples in Indian languages? If English functions as the imperial …
Decolonial Trajectories: Praxes and Challenges
In this special issue of Interventions, we consider the transnational articulations of the expansive site of decolonial studies. The disparate as well as interconnecting lines of reflection, traversing geopolitical and disciplinary borders, instructively allude to the trajectories of decolonial theorization. It is within these interstitial transnational sites that the Decolonizing Sexualities Network (DSN) emerged in the last decade by suturing q…
Decolonial Sexualities: Paola Bacchetta in conversation with Suhraiya Jivraj and Sandeep Bakshi
In this roundtable forum, decolonial dyke-queer theorist Paola Bacchetta begins with a discussion of the span of decolonial queer theorization as it gained momentum in several fields of critical inquiry. Connecting it to contemporary mobilizations – anti-imperial, decolonial, anti-racism, feminist, queer – appears in this scenario as one of its key constituent features. Understanding, critiquing and transforming relations of power emerges as a ne…
The Decolonial Eye/I: Decolonial Enunciations of Queer Diasporic Practices
Drawing upon decolonial enunciation and cultural practices, this essay gestures towards the development of a decolonial sensing of queer diasporic artmaking. The key focus of the essay is the crossing of queer and decolonial thinking. A sustained critical reflection on these two theoretical sites is crucial, in my view, to offer a fuller comprehension of acts, practices and, broadly, cultures. Decolonial thinkers such as Walter Mignolo deploy fra…
Queeritude décoloniale: Quels enjeux, quelles possibilités
L’objectif de cet article est de problématiser la lecture traditionnelle de colonialité/modernité qui place la pensée eurocentrée dans une relation dialectique avec d’autres formes du savoir, tout en combinant l’apport des études décoloniales aux articulations queer transnationales. De façon plus précise, il propose une réévaluation des paradigmes queer contemporains dans le nord global (geopolitical west) et les régions géopolitiques considérées…
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory
Universalism and Queer Entanglements
Given the rapid homogenisation of queer discourse transnationally through its attachment to Euro-US avatars, it has become commonplace to consider the normativity of the queer-as-antinormative narrative as a “field-defining rule” (Wiegman and Wilson, 2015). Transnational feminist, queer and queer of colour theorisations have alerted to the coloniality of the queer universal that disregards the specific particularisms of race, migration and global…
The New Racial Regime: Transnational Trajectories of Racial Oppression and Resistance
Sociology (11 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (10 works) · Queer (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works)