The Sex of History, or Object/Matters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4493732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anjali Arondekar (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Pages | 207-213 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbz053 |
| OpenAlex | W2998839130 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The mandate to think of Stonewall as a global historical event within South Asia necessitates a difficult act of translation. Was my goal as a historian of sexuality and South Asia to decentre the primacy of Stonewall with local historical events of import? Or was it more epistemological, to address instead the question of why historical causality and memorialization works differently within the fabular geography that is South Asia? In other words, did the history of the Stonewall riots create more of a political demand on subaltern collectivities to 'produce' their own seismic historical event, or did it foreground even further the epistemological divide between the West and the Rest? This brief essay is a meditation on these questions and more
Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |