Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice & Department of Politics and International Studies

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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

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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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SOAS Radio · Radio Research Forum: Out Of Time w/ Rahul Rao

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International relations theory, critical theory (especially postcolonial and queer theory), comparative political thought, gender and sexuality, South Asia.

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