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Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations) - Softcover

Book 23 of 30: Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations

Rao, Rahul

 
9780190865528: Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0190865520 ISBN 13: 9780190865528
Publisher: OUP USA, 2020

Synopsis

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. It investigates the impact and memory of the colonial encounter on the politics of sexuality, the politics of religiosity of different Christian denominations, and the political economy of contemporary homophobic moral panics.

In addition, Out of Time places the Ugandan experience in conversation with contemporaneous developments in India and Britain--three locations that are yoked together by the experience of British imperialism and its afterlives. Intervening in a queer theoretical literature on temporality, Rahul Rao argues that time and space matter differently in the queer politics of postcolonial countries. By employing an intersectional analysis and drawing on a range of sources, Rao offers an original interpretation of why queerness mutates to become a metonym for categories such as nationality, religiosity, race, class, and caste. The book argues that these mutations reveal the deep grammars forged in the violence that founds and reproduces the social institutions in which queer difference struggles to make space for itself.

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About the Author

Rahul Rao is Senior Lecturer in Politics at SOAS University of London. He is the author of Third World Protest: Between Home and the World, and of numerous articles in the fields of international relations, postcolonial studies, and queer theory. He is a member of the Radical Philosophy collective.

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0190865520
ISBN 13 
9780190865528
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288