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Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations

Out of Time

The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality

Rahul (Senior Lecturer in Politics, Senior Lecturer in Politics, SOAS, University of London) Rao

Out of Time

Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations

Out of Time

The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality

Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations: Out of Time

 

This book explores the afterlives of colonialism and the futures imagined in its wake in the queer politics of Uganda, India, and Britain. Revitalizing intersectional thinking, it offers an original interpretation of why queerness mutates to become a metonym for categories such as nationality, religiosity, race, class, and caste.


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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.


ISBN
9780190865511
Pagina's
280
Verschenen
Serie
Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
NUR
754
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

Politicologie