Toward a “Freedom Life
Notes on Transmasculine Placemaking in the “World-Class” City of New Delhi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7920003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rushaan Kumar (0009-0004-4227-8323, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 375-391 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Men and Masculinities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1097-184X • E-ISSN: 1552-6828 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1097184x241273865 |
| OpenAlex | W4402126224 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
The epistemological formations of area studies and critical regionality have been instrumental in situating the politics of gender-sexual variance in the Global South. Recent scholarship in India encourages further rescaling of queer and trans studies to account for the mutual entanglements of sexual and caste modernity, rights-based organizing, and metronormativity. Following this work, this article considers the possibilities offered by emphasizing the micro-locality of the urban neighborhood. A reading of two Delhi-based documentary films, Who Can Speak of Men? (2003) and Yeh Freedom Life (2019), the article troubles the idea of a unitary global and national trans subject. Conceptualizing the urban neighborhood as method and mode of reading transmasculinity compels a rethinking of the dichotomous framings of metropolitan queer as elite and transgender as abject. This article provides a trans microcartography wherein the world- and place-making work of transmasculine people enables a reimagining of masculinity in the neoliberalizing Indian “world-class city
Geography · New delhi · Placemaking · Sociology · Urban design · Urban planning · World class · Computer Science · Engineering · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Urban Planning and Governance · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation · Artificial Intelligence
Rule By Aesthetics
Toms and Dees
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
The Queen of America Goes to Washington City
Asia is burning
Terrorist Assemblages
Intimate Subjects and Virtual Spaces
Hindu Nation and its Queers
The Globally Familiar
Imaginaries of a Vision
Trans-in-Asia, Asia-in-Trans
A Pre-Partitioned City? Anti-Colonial and Communal Mohallas in Inter-War Delhi
Queering Critiques of Neoliberalism in India
World, City, Queer
The intimate city
Queering the transnational turn
Area Impossible
Transportation
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |