Title Out of time : the queer politics of postcoloniality / Rahul Rao

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 262 pages) Series Oxford studies in gender and international relations Oxford studies in gender and international relations. Contents The location of homophobia -- Re-membering Mwanga, mourning the martyrs -- Spectres of colonialism -- Queer in the time of homocapitalism -- The nation and its queers Summary "Between 2009 and 2014, an anti homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament attracted global attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US antigay evangelical Christians who were reported to have lobbied for its passage. This book makes three contributions to our understanding of these developments. First, it offers an account of the international relations that anticipated and followed the Anti Homosexuality Act. Journeying through encounters between the kingdom of Buganda and British colonialism, between the Ugandan state and its international donors, and between LGBTI activists in the global South and North, the book illuminates the frictional collaborations across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias. Second, it explores the dialectic produced by two opposed statements that mark queer postcolonial disagreements-'homosexuality is Western' and 'homophobia is Western'. Arguing that both statements are true but trivial, the book demonstrates how their opposition produces distinctive forms of temporal politics in the queer postcolony. In this register, the book explores the afterlives of colonialism and the queer futures enabled by it in Uganda, India, and Britain. Third, in shifting the scenes of encounter that it investigates from one chapter to the next, the book reveals how queerness mutates in different configurations of power to become a metonym for other categories such as nationality, religiosity, race, class, and caste. It argues that these mutations reveal the grammars forged in the originary violence of the state and social institutions in which queer difference struggles to find place"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 08, 2020) Subject Gay rights -- Uganda Gay rights -- India Gay people -- Uganda -- Social conditions -- 21st century Gay people -- India -- Social conditions -- 21st century Homosexuality -- Law and legislation -- Uganda Homosexuality -- Law and legislation -- India Homophobia -- Uganda Homophobia -- India Postcolonialism. postcolonialism. British colonies Gay rights Gays -- Social conditions Homophobia Homosexuality -- Law and legislation Postcolonialism Social conditions SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056657 Subject India Uganda Form Electronic book LC no. 2019047244 ISBN 9780190865535 0190865539 9780190865559 0190865555 9780190865542 0190865547

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