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Locating A Shadowy State In Queer, Feminist Politics, Atreyee Majumder Jul 2023

Locating A Shadowy State In Queer, Feminist Politics, Atreyee Majumder

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In this commentary, part of a book forum on Srila Roy’s (2022) book ”Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India”, I argue that the feminist and queer movement, in response to the neoliberal turn in India, is not totally separate from the Indian state formations. In fact, a shadowy state emerges in the affective life of citizens as an expression of what Timothy Mitchell would have called “state effect”.