Sandeep Bakshi
I received my PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester (UK) in June 2011. My dissertation, funded by the AHRC, examined contemporary queer fiction in English from South Asia and its diasporas. It underscored the critical significance of a double-pronged theoretical approach by combining insights from queer and postcolonial scholarship. Building upon recent research that re-maps queer discourses through an encounter with postcolonial theory and narratives, I argued that South Asian queer fiction disputes the Western bias in queer paradigms, and challenges the elision of sexual and gender non-normativity in postcolonial studies in order to make both queer and postcolonial sites truly transformational.
I am currently employed as Lecturer in Decolonial, Postcolonial and Queer Studies at Université Paris Cité, France. https://larca.u-paris.fr/en/membre/bakshi-sandeep-2/
I co-run the Decolonizing Sexualities Network with Paola Bacchetta. https://decolonizingsexualities.org
I'm the SSPS-IASH Research Fellow 2021-2022 at the University of Edinburgh - Institute Project on Decoloniality 21-24. https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/ipd/year-one?fbclid=IwAR0wIQNsBPyBJzPVNezzmqQcZoxTommDJtLwwa065ULv8aM3xDjW4dBX59Y
Twitter: @sandeepbak
Address: University email address: sandeep.bakshi@u-paris.fr
I am currently employed as Lecturer in Decolonial, Postcolonial and Queer Studies at Université Paris Cité, France. https://larca.u-paris.fr/en/membre/bakshi-sandeep-2/
I co-run the Decolonizing Sexualities Network with Paola Bacchetta. https://decolonizingsexualities.org
I'm the SSPS-IASH Research Fellow 2021-2022 at the University of Edinburgh - Institute Project on Decoloniality 21-24. https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/ipd/year-one?fbclid=IwAR0wIQNsBPyBJzPVNezzmqQcZoxTommDJtLwwa065ULv8aM3xDjW4dBX59Y
Twitter: @sandeepbak
Address: University email address: sandeep.bakshi@u-paris.fr
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literature seeking to frame connective strands of decolonial and
queer studies and politics (see Jivraj, Bakshi and Posocco, 2020,
p.454), demands for disambiguated definitions and articulations
of the nascent field of inquiry - i.e., decolonising sexualities - are
regular occurrences in academic debates. This essay recapitulates
such articulations by providing a genealogy of conversations in
disparate geopolitical and disciplinary locations and definitions of
terms that have often multiple trajectories and meanings. In so
doing, it charts the definitions of decolonial queerness that
emerge from the conjunctive theorisation of decolonial and queer
paradigms as well.