Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice
& Department of Politics and International Studies
Dr Rahul Rao
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of Politics and International Studies Reader in Political Theory Member Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice Member Academic Staff, SOAS South Asia Institute
- Department
- Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice & Department of Politics and International Studies
- Qualifications
- BA, LLB (India); DPhil (Oxon)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
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.
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Research interests
International relations theory, critical theory (especially postcolonial and queer theory), comparative political thought, gender and sexuality, South Asia.
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Lars Olav Aaberg | Queer Diversity and Inclusion Policy and Practice: an Ethnographic Study of Queer Politics in India’s Information City |
| Hinni Aarninsalo | |
| Hanna Al Taher | Gendered Citizenship in Jordan: Imagining, Claiming, Resisting Belonging |
| Mrs Sena Galazzi Lian | Saving' Myanmar One Day at a Time: the Everyday Lives of NGO Workers in Yangon (Working title) |
| Maia Holtermann Entwistle | “Petro-Culture: Cultural Infrastructure and Liberal Power in the Arab Gulf States” |
| Mr Leon Nelson Kunz | Thesis title: Deliberative Democracy in Social Movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong. |
| Cornelis Rijneveld | High Fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among queer men in urban India (working title) |
| Jacquelyn P. Strey | Queer Moments, Queer Imaginings: The everyday activism of queer women in India |
| Naseeba Umar | Queer Subjectivity and Sexual Governance |
| Yuan Zhong | How do gender norms influence the marriages between tongzhi and tongqi? |
