Timely and important, Rao's Out of Time will sit alongside the work of Jasbir Puar's Terrorist Assemblages and Lisa Duggan's The Twilight of Equality as one of those must-read texts on every queer studies syllabus. It is that good.
Rahul Rao is Senior Lecturer in Politics at SOAS University of London. He is the author of Third World Protest: Between Home and the World, and of numerous articles in the fields of international relations, postcolonial studies, and queer theory. He is a member of the Radical Philosophy collective.