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Authored Books

Rao, Rahul (2020) Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality. New York: Oxford University Press.

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

Book Chapters

Rao, Rahul (2021) 'The Terror of Invulnerability.' In: Browne, Victoria, Danely, Jason and Rosenow, Doerthe, (eds.), Vulnerability and the Politics of Care: Transdisciplinary Dialogues. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 78-82.

Dasgupta, Rohit K., Gupta, Sunil and Rao, Rahul (2018) 'Global Day of Rage in London: Reflecting on Queer Activisms, New Media and Friendship.' In: Banerjea, Niharika, Dasgupta, Debanuj, Dasgupta, Rohit K. and Grant, Jaime M., (eds.), Friendship as Social Justice Activism: Critical Solidarities in a Global Perspective. Kolkata: Seagull Books.

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. (Routledge Research in International Law)

Rao, Rahul (2017) 'Critique in hysterical times.' In: Anagnostopoulos, Athanasios, Ieropoulos, Fil and Dousos, Foivos, (eds.), The Black Book of FYTA = Hē marē biblos tōn phyta. Athens: Nefeli, pp. 34-40.

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 and 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, 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, Kirloskar-Steinbach, Monika, 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. (Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought)

Rao, Rahul (2013) 'Postcolonialism.' In: Freeden, Michael, 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.

Journal Article

Rao, Rahul (2020) 'Neoliberal antiracism and the British university.' Radical Philosophy, 2 (8). pp. 47-54.

Rao, Rahul (2020) 'Nationalisms by, against and beyond the Indian state.' Radical Philosophy, 2 (7). pp. 17-26.

Rao, Rahul (2018) 'Review Article: One Time, Many Times.' Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 47 (2). pp. 299-308.

Rao, Rahul (2018) 'The State of 'Queer IR'.' GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 24 (1). pp. 139-149.

Rao, Rahul (2017) 'Subalternity and International Law: In Appreciation of Di Otto.' Melbourne Journal of International Law, 18 (2). pp. 135-137.

Rao, Rahul (2017) 'Recovering Reparative Readings of Postcolonialism and Marxism.' Critical Sociology, 43 (4-5). pp. 587-598.

Rao, Rahul (2016) 'The Diplomat and the Domestic: Or, Homage to 'Faking It'.' Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 45 (1). pp. 105-112.

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

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

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

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.

Monographs and Working Papers

Rao, Rahul, 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 (2020) 'The ineffable somethingness of love and revolution.' Jindal Law and Humanities Review, 1 . pp. 108-112.

Rao, Rahul (2020) 'Review: 'Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe: Critics, Artists, Movements, and their Publics', edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Adriano José Habed.' The Sociological Review .

Rao, Rahul (2019) 'Geopolitical antifuturism: Review of C. Heike Schotten, 'Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony' (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).' Radical Philosophy, 2 (5). pp. 90-92.

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, 19 (2). pp. 278-279.

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 and 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).

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Rao, Rahul (2021) Decolonisation’s Conservative Enemies and Liberal Friends. Art School [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Rao, Rahul (2020) Abusing Mandela to Absolve Rhodes. Verso blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Rao, Rahul (2020) Test Of Faith. The Caravan [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Rao, Rahul (2019) 'Mendacious Fictions.' The Disorder of Things . London:

Rao, Rahul (2018) 'Maiming, debility and the proliferation of the 'pariah'.' The Disorder of Things .

Rao, Rahul (2018) 'This House Believes Britain Should Be Ashamed Of Churchill.' The Disorder of Things (May 26).

Rao, Rahul (2017) 'On Statues (III).' The Disorder of Things .

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

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) 'The Queer Art of Whistle Blowing.' The Disorder of Things .

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

Rao, Rahul (2012) 'How Many Buddhists Are There in Northern Ireland?' 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 (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 (382).

Rao, Rahul (2004) 'World Social Forum Mumbai: Included Out?' Mute: culture and politics after the Net (27).

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