The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality - a talk by Dr Rahul Rao, SOAS
The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality - a talk by Dr Rahul Rao, SOAS
Black History Month
Date: Monday 26 October 2020
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Venue: Online
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Dr Rahul Rao
In Out of Time: the Queer Politics of Postcoloniality, Dr Rao provides an in depth study of the afterlives of colonialism and the forms of queer politics enabled by it in Uganda, India and Britain.
Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights. The law attracted attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US evangelical Christian activists who were said to have lobbied for its passage. Focusing on the Ugandan case, this book seeks to understand the encounters and entanglements across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias.
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Biography
Rahul Rao is the author of Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (2020) and Third World Protest: Between Home and the World (2010), both published by Oxford University Press. He is currently writing a book on the politics of controversial statues. He is a member of the Radical Philosophy collective and blogs occasionally at The Disorder of Things. He has research interests in international relations, postcolonial and queer theory, gender and sexuality, and South Asia.