SOAS University of London

Department of Politics and International Studies

Dr Rahul Rao

BA, LLB (India); DPhil (Oxon)
  • Teaching
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Overview

Rahul Rao
Department of Politics and International Studies

Reader in Political Theory

Centre for Gender Studies

Member

Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice

Member

SOAS South Asia Institute

Academic Staff, SOAS South Asia Institute

Name:
Dr Rahul Rao
Address:
SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:
Russell Square: College Buildings
On Sabbatical:
2021/22

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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Teaching

Programmes Convened
Modules Taught
PhD Students supervised
  • Abeera Khan, Queer Muslim Subjecthoods: Mapping London's Contested Landscape
  • Cornelis Rijneveld, High Fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among queer men in urban India (working title)
  • Hanna Al Taher, Gendered Citizenship in Jordan: Imagining, Claiming, Resisting Belonging
  • Hinni Aarninsalo,
  • Jacquelyn P. Strey, Queer Moments, Queer Imaginings: The everyday activism of queer women in India
  • Lars Olav Aaberg, Queer Diversity and Inclusion Policy and Practice: an Ethnographic Study of Queer Politics in India’s Information City
  • Leon Nelson Kunz, Thesis title: Deliberative Democracy in Social Movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
  • Maia Holtermann Entwistle, “Petro-Culture: Cultural Infrastructure and Liberal Power in the Arab Gulf States”
  • Naseeba Umar, Queer Subjectivity and Sexual Governance
  • Paul Kaletsch, The Recent Aftermath of "Unsuccessful" Contemporary East Asian Urban Student Protests?
  • Sena Galazzi Lian, Saving' Myanmar One Day at a Time: the Everyday Lives of NGO Workers in Yangon (Working title)
  • Yuan Zhong, How do gender norms influence the marriages between tongzhi and tongqi?

Research

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

Expertise

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Publications

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