Give Love One More Chance: Rescuing Intimacy from Convenience Culture – Paul Thomas
Introduction There’s a line in Queen and David Bowie’s 1981 anthem “Under Pressure” that sociologists of intimacy would do well…
Swipe, Match, Ghost: Rethinking Love in the Age of Dating Apps – Gyandeep Bhattacharyya
Romantic life in the 21st century has transitioned to a digital stage. Here, dating applications have become both meeting grounds…
Affection “Étiquettes”: Governance of Desire – Merin Mani and Tamanna Nandal
“As regards the impact of surveillance, one can agree with Foucault that sexuality, like most other aspects of personal life,…
Liminal Privacy: Quest For Public Intimacy – Medhavi Gupta
A few days ago, I was travelling in a car with my family and we passed by a famous park…
A Match Made in Heaven: Exploring Love, Sex, and Relationships From a Disabled Lens – Kavya Mukhija and Aparajita Chatterjee
Despite the overall U.S. first-marriage rate for ages 18 to 49 being 48.9 per 1,000, for people with disabilities, it…
Family Norms and Images in Transition: Contemporary Negotiations of Reproductive Labor, Love and Relationships in India edited by Nadja-Christina Schneider and Fritzi-Marie Titzmann (2020): A Review by Rajeev Anand Kushwah
Family Norms and Images in Transition: Contemporary Negotiations of Reproductive Labor, Love and Relationships in India edited by Nadja-Christina Schneider…
Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India by Vaibhav Saria (2021): A Review by Ankur Verma
When one attempts to examine the lives lived on the peripheries of society, the perspective largely oscillates between investigating the…
Besharam Rang Kahan Dekha: Love, Family, Watan, Sociology – Rukmini Sen
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. Teaching the Social through Popular What does it…
Staging Spectres and Spectacle: Of Love, Loss, and Pathaan – Deepa Sreenivas
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. “While carnival lasts, there is no other…
Dahaad: Love, Sex and Demography – Tannistha Samanta
The “love, sex aur dhoka” genre unfolds chillingly in Amazon Prime Video’s recent offering, Dahaad. Directors Reema Kagti and Zoya…