Rahul Rao

Department of Politics and International Studies

Senior Lecturer in Politics

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

Email address:

rr18@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7898 4534

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

4423

On Sabbatical:

Term 1 & 2 - 2016/17

Biography

Rahul Rao has research interests in international relations theory, the international relations of South Asia, comparative political thought, and gender and sexuality. He is currently working on a book on queer postcolonial temporality. His first book Third World Protest: Between Home and the World (Oxford University Press, 2010) explored the relationship between cosmopolitanism and nationalism in postcolonial protest. He was previously a Term Fellow in Politics at University College, Oxford. He has a law degree from the National Law School of India University, and read for a doctorate in international relations at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Courses Taught

• International Relations of South Asia
• Introduction to International Relations

PhD Students supervised

• Art Mitchells-Urwin, Pornography Consumption of Diasporic Thais: Shifting and Static Responses to Power and the Erotic
• Daniel Luther, Working title - Queering Normativity: Recovering the Small Voices of Sex in Literature and Film in India.
• Hinni Aarainsalo,
• Jacquelyn P. Strey, Queer Moments, Queer Imaginings: The everyday activism of queer women in India
• Jana Cattien, Contemporary Cologne: Unsettling Feminisms, Alliances and Events
• Lewis Turner, Working title: Men, Masculinities and the Humanitarian Response to the Refugee Crisis in Jordan
• Sena Galazzi-Lian, 'Saving' Myanmar One Day at a Time: the Everyday Lives of NGO Workers in Yangon (Working title)
• Sruthi Muraleedharan , Symbolic Encounters: Identity, Performativity and Democratic Subjectivity in India (Preliminary Title)

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

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Available for

• TV
• Radio
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• Briefings
• Special Study Programmes
• Short Term Consultancy
• Long Term Consultancy

Regional Expertise

• Global
• South Asia

Country Expertise

Languages

Authored Books

Rao, Rahul (2010) Third World Protest: Between Home and the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Articles

Rao, Rahul (2016) 'The Diplomat and the Domestic: Or, Homage to 'Faking It''. Millennium - Journal of International Studies, pp 1-8.

Rao, Rahul (2016) 'Recovering Reparative Readings of Postcolonialism and Marxism'. Critical Sociology, pp 1-12.

Rao, Rahul (2015) 'Re-membering Mwanga: same-sex intimacy, memory and belonging in postcolonial Uganda '. Journal of Eastern African Studies, (9) 1, pp 1-19.

Rao, Rahul (2015) 'Global Homocapitalism'. Radical Philosophy, (194), pp 38-49.

Rao, Rahul (2014) 'Queer Questions'. International Feminist Journal of Politics, (16) 2, pp 199-217.

Rao, Rahul (2014) 'The locations of homophobia'. London Review of International Law, (2) 2, pp 169-199.

Rao, Rahul (2012) 'Review Essay: Revisiting Cartographic Anxiety'. Osgoode Hall Law Journal, (49) 3, pp 575-592.

Rao, Rahul (2010) 'Disciplining Cosmopolitanism'. Transnational Legal Theory, (1) 3, pp 393-420.

Rao, Rahul (2004) 'The Empire Writes Back (to Michael Ignatieff)'. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, (33) 1, pp 145-166.

Rao, Rahul (2000) 'The UN and NATO in the New World Order: Legal Issues'. International Studies, (37) 3, pp 157-181.

Book Chapters

Rao, Rahul (2017) 'A tale of two atonements'. In: Otto, Dianne, (ed.), Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp 15-34.

Rao, Rahul (2016) 'Before Bandung: Pet Names in Telangana'. In: Phạm, Quỳnh N. and Shilliam, Robbie, (eds.), Meanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions. London: Rowman & Littlefield, pp 85-94.

Rao, Rahul (2016) 'Revolution'. In: Berenskoetter, Felix, (ed.), Concepts in World Politics. London: Sage, pp 253-270.

Rao, Rahul (2015) 'Echoes of Imperialism in LGBT Activism '. In: Nicolaïdis, Kalypso and Sèbe, Berny and Maas, Gabrielle, (eds.), Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies. London: I. B. Tauris, pp 355-372.

Rao, Rahul (2015) 'Hijra'. In: Dharampal-Frick, Gita and Kirloskar-Steinbach, Monika and Dwyer, Rachel and Phalkey, Jahnavi, (eds.), Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp 99-101.

Rao, Rahul (2014) 'The Elusiveness of 'Non-Western Cosmopolitanism''. In: Gupta, Sonika and Padmanabhan, Sudarsan, (eds.), Politics and Cosmopolitanism in a Global Age. New Delhi: Routledge.

Rao, Rahul (2013) 'Postcolonialism'. In: Freeden, Michael and Sargent, Lyman Tower and Stears, Marc, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 271-289.

Rao, Rahul (2012) 'Cosmopolitanism'. In: Chimni, Bhupinder S. and Mallavarapu, Siddharth, (eds.), International Relations: Perspectives for the Global South. Delhi: Pearson, pp 195-209.

Rao, Rahul (2012) 'Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism: Making Place for Nationalism'. In: Tripathy, Jyotirmaya and Padmanabhan, Sudarsan, (eds.), The Democratic Predicament: Cultural Diversity in Europe and India. New Delhi: Routledge, pp 165-187.

Rao, Rahul (2011) 'Queer in the Time of Terror'. In: Narrain, Arvind and Gupta, Alok, (eds.), Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on Law. New Delhi: Yoda Press, pp 43-66.

Monographs and Working Papers

Rao, Rahul and Weber-Venghaus, Svenja and Sasser, Brandie (2001) Implementation of Operational Directive 4.20 on Indigenous Peoples: An Independent Desk Review, Background Paper 1: A Review of Selected Issues Related to Indigenous Peoples. Washington D.C.: World Bank.

Book Reviews

Rao, Rahul (2017) 'Review: 'Sexual states: governance and the struggle over the antisodomy law in India' by Jyoti Puri. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2016.'. International Feminist Journal of Politics.

Rao, Rahul (2015) 'Review: 'The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism' by Paul Amar.'. philoSOPHIA, (5) 2, pp 336-340.

Rao, Rahul (2013) 'Listening to the avant-garde'. Ethics & Global Politics, (6) 2, pp 101-107.

Rao, Rahul (2013) 'Review: 'Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics' by Naisargi N. Dave.'. ID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs, (3), pp 191-197.

Rao, Rahul (2008) 'Review: 'The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future' by Martha Nussbaum. '. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, (37) 1, pp 245-247.

Rao, Rahul (2005) 'Review of 'Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts''. Oxonian Review of Books, (4) 3.

Other

Rao, Rahul (2016) 'Citizens of Nowhere'The Disorder of Things.

Rao, Rahul (2016) 'On Statues (II)'The Disorder of Things [Online].

Rao, Rahul (2016) 'On Statues'The Disorder of Things [Online].

Rao, Rahul (2015) 'Love in the Time of El Período Especial'The Disorder of Things.

Rao, Rahul (2015) 'A Debate Around John Hobson's 'The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics''The Disorder of Things.

Rao, Rahul (2014) 'Cavity Searches in Intern(ation)al Relations'The Disorder of Things.

Rao, Rahul (2014) 'Staying positivist in the fight against homophobia'Sexuality Policy Watch Newsletter, 14.

Rao, Rahul (2013) 'Sour Lips: A Review'The Disorder of Things.

Rao, Rahul (2013) 'The Queer Art of Whistle Blowing 'The Disorder of Things.

Rao, Rahul (2012) 'On 'gay conditionality', imperial power and queer liberation'Kafila.

Rao, Rahul (2012) 'Researching Sexuality in ‘Difficult’ Contexts'The Disorder of Things.

Rao, Rahul (2012) 'How Many Buddhists Are There in Northern Ireland?'The Disorder of Things.

Rao, Rahul (2011) 'War theatre: Black Watch'openDemocracy.

Rao, Rahul (2011) 'Dalston: a worm's eye view'The Disorder of Things.

Rao, Rahul (2010) 'In defence of Sex and the City 2'openDemocracy.

Rao, Rahul (2008) 'Mumbai: Why?'Global Policy Forum.

Rao, Rahul (2005) 'Blenheim and Bangalore'New Internationalist.

Rao, Rahul (2004) 'World Social Forum Mumbai: Included Out?'Mute: culture and politics after the Net.

Rao, Rahul (1999) 'Social Clauses: Here to Stay'Global Policy Forum.

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