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Vol. 7 No. 4 (2020)
Space and Culture, India

Special Articles

Exclusion and Articulation: Transgender Counter-Public in the Indian Public Sphere

https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v7i4.556

Published 2020-03-29

  • Parul Priya
    • ,
  • Anurag Kumar

Parul Priya
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University

Anurag Kumar
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University

Abstract

The study attempts to locate transgender counter-public as an alternate public sphere in India. It argues that transgender counter-public is necessitated owing to the exclusionary practices of the Indian public sphere as well as the successive counter-public spheres. The study, further claims that transgender counter-public is constructed by critiquing the marginalisation of transgender people through exclusionary practices, and articulation of concerns linked to transgender people. Public discourse analysis of both discursive arenas—print: newspaper articles, journal articles, autobiographies, biographies, memoir, and others, and non-discursive arenas—activism, pride parade, protests and alike have been adopted as methodology. The study concludes that transgender counter-public achieves the dissemination of their concerns to the wider public that exclusion and discrimination of transgender people are a denial of social justice in the democratic social structure.

Keywords

Transgender Counterpublic, Indian public sphere, Marginalization, Exclusion, Articulation

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