Senthorun Raj
Biographic Data
| ID | 938104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Senthorun Raj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Senthorun |
| FAMILY NAME | Raj |
| SIGNATURE | RAJ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6972-9252 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical Judgments in Hostile Times
Nicole I’m a Munanjali and Birri Gubba woman, from Queensland, but I’ve been in Sydney for a long time. I had the great privilege of editing the Indigenous Legal Judgments book (Watson and Douglas 2021 ), a collection of sixteen judgments that have been reimagined from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. One of the goals of the project was to bring together a community of scholars who are interested in Indigenous legal issues. We’…
Book Symposium on The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
Do I feel proud?I reflected on this question recently while I gathered with several sweaty, strange, and gorgeous bodies on the streets of Washington DC for World Pride in June 2025.As I stood in the midday heat waiting impatiently amongst a crowd of thousands hoping to parade, the pink, blue, purple, yellow glitter began to trickle slowly down my face.I was an emotional mess and my sparkle reflected that.The beady glints of pink, blue, purple, a…
Emotional accountabilities
Queer encounters with legal accountability generate a range of tensions and paradoxes. In law, accountability materialises as a core feature of legal systems that seek to hold individuals and institutions responsible for their behaviour according to a set of predetermined state criteria. Queer scholars have approached legal logics of responsibility with scepticism as these logics are indexed by heteronormative state criteria. Queer legal work hol…
Legal hostilities
Asylum laws, policies, and bureaucracies are structured by spatializing logics of emotion such as compassion, sympathy, fear, anxiety, and hostility. For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) people who seek asylum, legal recognition as a refugee is contingent on the extent to which receiving states believe they are deserving of compassion and care. This materializes spatially through racialized legal and administrativ…
Legally Affective
The teaching of critical race, feminist, and queer theory generally, and of LGBT rights specifically, has developed into a discrete, contested, and politicised area of teaching in English law schools and beyond. While there is some academic discussion on the personal and political significance of 'promoting LGBT rights' within law schools, less considered is how 'LGBT rights' are shaped by the emotions of legal academics and how these emotions ci…
Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world
Discussions about the human rights of LGBTIQ people tend to centre around two vastly different issues, namely, marriage equality and the criminalisation of same-sex sexual conduct. However, looking only at these two high-profile issues ignores the many pressing concerns facing LGBTIQ people around the world. This article identifies and analyses eight other human rights issues that urgently need addressing, in order to respect the rights of LGBTIQ…
Joseph J. Fischel
Contested feelings
This reflection explores how emotion shapes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights and law reforms. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the author maps how disgust regulates sexuality, hate manifests in hate crime penalties, anger arises in anti-discrimination measures, fear polices refugee law, anxiety shapes trans children’s access to medical transition, pity and compassion…
The Queer Outside in Law
Alleviating Anxiety and Cultivating Care
The distress and anxiety faced by young trans(gender) people generates varied social, medical, and legal concerns. In Australia, minors have had to appeal to the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia if they wished to undergo medical or surgical changes to their bodies in order to alleviate ‘gender dysphoria’ and affirm their gender. In approving almost every application to date and, most recently, dispensing with the requirement to seek …
After Marriage Equality
Once more with feeling
Scholars and activists concerned with eliminating violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people have generated passionate conversations about pursuing law reform to make injuries, intimacies, and identities visible while challenging how legal systems continue to marginalise queers. My paper contributes to these conversations by using emotion as an analytic register to navigate the ways case l…
A/Effective Adjudications
Who is the ‘queer refugee’? How do we manage their feelings, emotions and experiences when assessing or supporting their claims for asylum? In contemporary refugee decision-making and litigation, numerous challenges arise when discerning what constitutes a ‘well-founded fear’ of persecution for a clearly defined ‘particular social group’. Specifically, fact-finding and credibility assessment in this area of law reinforces stereotypical assumption…
Women's Human Rights
Women's Human Rights. Niamh Reilly, 2009. Cambridge: Polity Press. Internationally, the pursuit of gender justice and women's rights in the context of human rights advocacy has been a fraught polit
A Rainbow Racket
Margaret Court's recent opprobrium towards gays and lesbians during an interview with The West Australian has prompted calls to inundate the Australian Open Tennis with rainbows - a sign of solidarity against homophobia
Affective Displacements
Determining what counts as sexuality and persecution within the terms of international refugee law is fraught with challenges. Many decisions that seek to discern if a refugee was or was not homosexual, rely on discourses of sexuality that privilege the authentic from the inauthentic (ie the 'confused' or 'experimental' sexual experience from the 'genuine' sexual identity). What these analytic and moralising terms gesture to is that some sexual o…
Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world
Discussions about the human rights of LGBTIQ people tend to centre around two vastly different issues, namely, marriage equality and the criminalisation of same-sex sexual conduct. However, looking only at these two high-profile issues ignores the many pressing concerns facing LGBTIQ people around the world. This article identifies and analyses eight other human rights issues that urgently need addressing, in order to respect the rights of LGBTIQ…
A/Effective Adjudications
Who is the ‘queer refugee’? How do we manage their feelings, emotions and experiences when assessing or supporting their claims for asylum? In contemporary refugee decision-making and litigation, numerous challenges arise when discerning what constitutes a ‘well-founded fear’ of persecution for a clearly defined ‘particular social group’. Specifically, fact-finding and credibility assessment in this area of law reinforces stereotypical assumption…
Affective Displacements
Determining what counts as sexuality and persecution within the terms of international refugee law is fraught with challenges. Many decisions that seek to discern if a refugee was or was not homosexual, rely on discourses of sexuality that privilege the authentic from the inauthentic (ie the 'confused' or 'experimental' sexual experience from the 'genuine' sexual identity). What these analytic and moralising terms gesture to is that some sexual o…
Legal hostilities
Asylum laws, policies, and bureaucracies are structured by spatializing logics of emotion such as compassion, sympathy, fear, anxiety, and hostility. For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) people who seek asylum, legal recognition as a refugee is contingent on the extent to which receiving states believe they are deserving of compassion and care. This materializes spatially through racialized legal and administrativ…
Legally Affective
The teaching of critical race, feminist, and queer theory generally, and of LGBT rights specifically, has developed into a discrete, contested, and politicised area of teaching in English law schools and beyond. While there is some academic discussion on the personal and political significance of 'promoting LGBT rights' within law schools, less considered is how 'LGBT rights' are shaped by the emotions of legal academics and how these emotions ci…
Affective Displacements
Determining what counts as sexuality and persecution within the terms of international refugee law is fraught with challenges. Many decisions that seek to discern if a refugee was or was not homosexual, rely on discourses of sexuality that privilege the authentic from the inauthentic (ie the 'confused' or 'experimental' sexual experience from the 'genuine' sexual identity). What these analytic and moralising terms gesture to is that some sexual o…
A Rainbow Racket
Margaret Court's recent opprobrium towards gays and lesbians during an interview with The West Australian has prompted calls to inundate the Australian Open Tennis with rainbows - a sign of solidarity against homophobia
Women's Human Rights
Women's Human Rights. Niamh Reilly, 2009. Cambridge: Polity Press. Internationally, the pursuit of gender justice and women's rights in the context of human rights advocacy has been a fraught polit
A/Effective Adjudications
Who is the ‘queer refugee’? How do we manage their feelings, emotions and experiences when assessing or supporting their claims for asylum? In contemporary refugee decision-making and litigation, numerous challenges arise when discerning what constitutes a ‘well-founded fear’ of persecution for a clearly defined ‘particular social group’. Specifically, fact-finding and credibility assessment in this area of law reinforces stereotypical assumption…
After Marriage Equality
Once more with feeling
Scholars and activists concerned with eliminating violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people have generated passionate conversations about pursuing law reform to make injuries, intimacies, and identities visible while challenging how legal systems continue to marginalise queers. My paper contributes to these conversations by using emotion as an analytic register to navigate the ways case l…
Alleviating Anxiety and Cultivating Care
The distress and anxiety faced by young trans(gender) people generates varied social, medical, and legal concerns. In Australia, minors have had to appeal to the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia if they wished to undergo medical or surgical changes to their bodies in order to alleviate ‘gender dysphoria’ and affirm their gender. In approving almost every application to date and, most recently, dispensing with the requirement to seek …
Contested feelings
This reflection explores how emotion shapes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights and law reforms. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the author maps how disgust regulates sexuality, hate manifests in hate crime penalties, anger arises in anti-discrimination measures, fear polices refugee law, anxiety shapes trans children’s access to medical transition, pity and compassion…
The Queer Outside in Law
Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world
Discussions about the human rights of LGBTIQ people tend to centre around two vastly different issues, namely, marriage equality and the criminalisation of same-sex sexual conduct. However, looking only at these two high-profile issues ignores the many pressing concerns facing LGBTIQ people around the world. This article identifies and analyses eight other human rights issues that urgently need addressing, in order to respect the rights of LGBTIQ…
Joseph J. Fischel
Legally Affective
The teaching of critical race, feminist, and queer theory generally, and of LGBT rights specifically, has developed into a discrete, contested, and politicised area of teaching in English law schools and beyond. While there is some academic discussion on the personal and political significance of 'promoting LGBT rights' within law schools, less considered is how 'LGBT rights' are shaped by the emotions of legal academics and how these emotions ci…
Legal hostilities
Asylum laws, policies, and bureaucracies are structured by spatializing logics of emotion such as compassion, sympathy, fear, anxiety, and hostility. For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) people who seek asylum, legal recognition as a refugee is contingent on the extent to which receiving states believe they are deserving of compassion and care. This materializes spatially through racialized legal and administrativ…
Emotional accountabilities
Queer encounters with legal accountability generate a range of tensions and paradoxes. In law, accountability materialises as a core feature of legal systems that seek to hold individuals and institutions responsible for their behaviour according to a set of predetermined state criteria. Queer scholars have approached legal logics of responsibility with scepticism as these logics are indexed by heteronormative state criteria. Queer legal work hol…
Critical Judgments in Hostile Times
Nicole I’m a Munanjali and Birri Gubba woman, from Queensland, but I’ve been in Sydney for a long time. I had the great privilege of editing the Indigenous Legal Judgments book (Watson and Douglas 2021 ), a collection of sixteen judgments that have been reimagined from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. One of the goals of the project was to bring together a community of scholars who are interested in Indigenous legal issues. We’…
Book Symposium on The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
Do I feel proud?I reflected on this question recently while I gathered with several sweaty, strange, and gorgeous bodies on the streets of Washington DC for World Pride in June 2025.As I stood in the midday heat waiting impatiently amongst a crowd of thousands hoping to parade, the pink, blue, purple, yellow glitter began to trickle slowly down my face.I was an emotional mess and my sparkle reflected that.The beady glints of pink, blue, purple, a…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Human rights (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Queer (6 works)