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110. The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (with Rahul Rao and Kavya Murthy)
Memory, futurity and the present
Speakers
Rahul Rao, scholar and author of Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality, in conversation with writer Kavya Murthy talks about the inheritance that the former colonies are living with and how they have managed to warp and expand the imperialist biases and criminalisation of the Queer community.
Primarily examining three locations – India, Uganda and Britain – the relationship between the state and interaction with the international position, Culpability of colonial powers, current trans lives conditions in India and the responses of the UN and other international bodies, Out of Time ties together the aspects of Race, caste, class and human rights in the struggle for queer identity rights across centuries in the past and the future.
Speakers
Rahul Rao
Rahul Rao has research interests in international relations theory, the international relations of South Asia, comparative political thought, and gender and sexuality. Rahul Rao is the author of Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (2020). He is currently writing a book on the politics of controversial statues. 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.
Kavya Murthy
Kavya Murthy is a writer, editor and content strategist for digital platforms and curates books and events for Champaca Bookstore. She is writing a book about mangoes, lives in Mysore, enjoys the tango, and is a lapsed sociologist.
