Rethinking homonationalism volume 45 issue 2 jasbir puar. The controversy surrounds the february 3, 2016, appearance of rutgers associate professor jasbir puar. Control, and the affective politics of sensation by jasbir puar. Her distortions, baseless assertions and outright lies have been denounced and refuted by numerous sources. Homonationalism in queer times hereafter ta, i develop the conceptual. This social text periscope dossier offers reflections on jasbir puar s work from terrorist assemblages. Puar tenth anniversary expanded edition with a new foreword by tavia nyongo and a postscript by the author. Why did duke university press publish jasbir puars. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, puar uses the concept of debilitybodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic. Homonationalism as assemblage viral travels, affective sexualities jasbir k.
These testimonials obviously deserve deeper scrutiny and analysis be. Newly released dartmouth transcript shows antisemitic. Editor jeffrey andrew weinstock prepares the way with a genealogy of monster theory, traveling from the earliest explanations of monsters through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and cultural studies, to the development of monster theory per seand including jeffrey jerome cohens foundational essay monster theory seven theses. Homonationalism in queer times to the right to maim. Jasbir puar s argument in the right to maim of israels deliberate debilitation of palestiniansby bodily and psychological injury, social exclusion, economic stunting, and political. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a malignant epithelial nasopharyngeal tumor that until now the cause still unknown, epstein barr virus infection had reported as defiincion occurance of nasopharyngeal carcinoma but non viral factors may also contribute to the onset of the incidence of nasopharyngeal malignancy. While schroers recent win is certainly a victory for civil rights advocates, it also speaks directly to jasbir puar s acute identification, in her introduction to terrorist assemblages, of three.
Puar retaining queerness exclusively as dissenting, resistant, and alternative all of which queerness importantly is and does, it underscores contin. Puars mustread book the right to maim revolutionizes the. Debility, capacity, disability, a publication that discards. Drawing on the best in critical theory, philosophy, and media studies, patricia ticineto clough. Jasbir puar launches womens studies on a death spiral. Project muse i would rather be a cyborg than a goddess. Genocidal violence, paradoxical indigeneity, and the logic of elimination of the native building on the analytics she advanced in terrorist assemblages, jasbir puar. Homonationalism in queer times is a powerful, energetic, and highly insightful read. Download tenth anniversary expanded edition ten years on, jasbir k. Puar s mustread book the right to maim revolutionizes the study of twentyfirstcentury war and biomedicine, offering a searingly impressive reconceptualization of disability, trans, and queer. Puar in this article i aim to contextualise the rise of gay and lesbian movements within the purview of debates about rights discourses and the rightsbased subject, arguably the most potent aphrodisiac of liberalism. As jasbir puar puts it in the context of community activist dan savages positive message to the lgbt community in the video it gets better in response to a series of queer youth suicides. According to the panels agenda, she and other speakers were to promote themes that are.
Oishik sircar dipika jain editors foreword pdf articles 1. Download and install sejda desktop for mac and edit your pdf files offline. Once again, vassar college in poughkeepsie, ny, is mired in controversy regarding antiisrael activities on campus involving vassar faculty. Pugliese, and for astute editing suggestions from nadera shalhoub. Gay and lesbian life in the middle east, brian whitaker whitaker was the middle east editor for the guardian from 2000 to 2007. Puar is professor and graduate director of womens and gender studies at rutgers university, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. In defense of professor jasbir puars academic freedom. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to. In defense of professor jasbir puar s academic freedom. Kelly skylight room the graduate center, cuny 365 fifth avenue new york, ny 10016 in the right to maim jasbir k. Cadkas software pdf editor shareware download page. A conversation with patricia clough, seb franklin, and jasbir puar the center for the humanities.
Alums for campus fairness acf is a nonprofit organization that brings together alumni to counter antisemitism that is affecting far too many university and college campuses, while also promoting an open and fair dialogue on campus regarding the arabisraeli conflict. Debility, capacity, disability by jasbir puar asserts that the israeli defense forces believe in rehabilitation through the spatial, affective and corporeal debilitation of. The user unconscious university of minnesota press. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization. Debility, capacity, disability, by jasbir puar in the book, puar makes the grotesque claims, israel covertly enacts the. Antiisrael lecturer threatens to sue anyone who publishes her talk by petra marquardtbigman 03. On april 9, puar was a scheduled panelist at academic freedom week, held at columbia university. Puar of rutgers university is publishing a book called the right to maim. See our original blog report of her speech, professor jasbir k. University of california, berkeley, department of ethnic studies. Antiisrael lecturer threatens to sue anyone who publishes. Download and install sejda desktop for mac and edit your pdf. In november, duke university press dup published the right to maim.
Puar, jasbir rutgers womens and gender studies department. Terrori s t assemb l ages homonationalism in queer times jasbir k. While there is some merit to puar and mikdashis criticisms of pinkwatching, including, for example, that its obsessive focus on israelpalestine risks obscuring similar processes in other contexts, in their zeal to salvage the theory of homonationalism from its less sophisticated iterations, puar and mikdashi miss the real strengthsand. Webbased publications 2017 for the moment real life mag. Tenth anniversary expanded edition ten years on, jasbir k. Gender, violence and human security, edited by aili mari tripp, myra marx ferree, and christina ewig, is a timely intervention into current debates over human security as an approach to insecurity, violence, and gender.
She is the author of the awardwinning terrorist assemblages. Jasbir puars intersectional antiisrael academic gibberish. I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess becomingintersectional in assemblage theory. Professor jasbir puar, a member of the advisory board of usacbi, has come under an intense rightwing smear campaign perpetrated first by an attack blog, and then by the wall street journal.
Aili mari tripp, myra marx ferree and christina ewig eds. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, puar uses the concept of debilitybodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factorsto disrupt the category of disability. Puar s pathbreaking terrorist assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits. The political economy of homonationalism social text. The essays collected in the user unconscious, each in its own way and together, are groundbreaking in that they brilliantly pose problems of affect, media, and measure as questions of memory, embodiment, and subjectivation in the datalogical era. Rutgers prof insists her updated version of the blood. Interspecies is a framing paradigm that names the articulation of humannonhuman binaries and humananimalplant taxonomies as interrelated, even as these continue to operate in. In queer times, queer assemblages, published in 2005, puar analyzes the war on terror as an assemblage of racism, nationalism. Disablement and inhumanist biopolitics in palestinei jasbir k.
The book absorbs a surprising amount of intellectual, political, and emotional. Letter in support of professor jasbir puar regarding right. Celia jameson, parallax jasbir puars terrorist assemblages. Rutgers must challenge antisemitic educator on campus. Rutgers university professor jasbir puar, who has faced sharp criticism for her conspiracy theory that israel is secretly harvesting the organs of palestinian terrorists. Puar provides compelling and convincing examples of the unwitting effects of homonormative discourse. Dec 06, 2017 in november, duke university press dup published the right to maim. Statistical manual of mental disorders dsm iii and dsm iv have caused.
Listed below are select articles available to read download in pdf format. In the preface to her most recent work the right to maim, jasbir puar informs her readers that she mobilizes the term debility as a needed disruption of the category of disability and as a. May 15, 2016 as was reported at the time by the algemeiner, jasbir puar an associate professor of women and gender studies, with an emphasis on queer theory, feminism, globalization and diaspora studies. The nwsa has now crossed a further line in selfdiscreditation by honoring jasbir puar s december 2017 book the right to maim. Puar in this article i aim to contextualise the rise of gay and lesbian movements within the purview of debates about rights. Homonationalism is the favorable association between a nationalist ideology and lgbt people or their rights the term was originally proposed by the researcher in gender studies jasbir k. Pdf terrorist assemblages download read online free. Homonationalism wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Rethinking homonationalism international journal of. March 8, 2020 jns rutgers professor jasbir puar has been invited to speak at scripps college in california by its chapter of students for justice in palestine and several of the colleges academic departments. It is rare that i get angry at a public talk, but thats exactly what happened last night. Discrediting academia in solidarity with jasbir puars.
Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to cont. Puar s pathbreaking terrorist assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate. The video is a mandate to fold into urban, neoliberal gay enclaves, a form of liberal handholding and upwardmobility that echoes the now discredited. A journal of lesbian and gay studies, 812 winter 2002. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. His account is easy to read, but was also criticised by some authors as reproducing antiarab stereotypes. Combining theory, metaphor and oodles of concrete examples, puar shows how certain groups of people are able to. While schroers recent win is certainly a victory for civil rights advocates, it also speaks directly to jasbir puars acute identification, in her introduction to terrorist assemblages, of three symptoms of the queer times that is, the neoimperialist, homonormative contemporary we live in. Open the online pdf editor with safari or your other favourite browser. Homonationalism in queer times 2007, an expanded 10th anniversary version of which is forthcoming dec 2017, as well as numerous articles in mainstream, scholarly, and alternative venues. Puar, associate professor of womens and gender studies at. Puar rutgers university, usa this essay argues that israel manifests an implicit claim to the right to maim and.
Kauanui, jasbir puar, steven salaita, john stephens, and the american studies association, defendants. Geographies of globalization guest editor, double issue, glq. Puar grids happen writes brian massumi, at a moment in parables for the virtual. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, puar. Puar in 2007 to refer to the processes by which some powers line up with the claims of the lgbti community in order to justify racist, xenophobic and aporophobic positions, especially against islam, basing. I was at the keynote address of culture shock, a series of events going on at mcgill university, listening to rutgers professor jasbir puar speak about homonationalism, and specifically about her book on that subject terrorist assemblages. She has also been a visiting lecturer in the department of performance studies at nyu and a visiting fellow at the. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. Our team is covering the coronavirus crisis in israel and the jewish world around the clock because we. How palestine matters delivered at vassar college on february 3 by jasbir k. The monster theory reader university of minnesota press.
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