Jasbir K. Puar

The Right to Maim

Debility, Capacity, Disability

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jasbir K. Puar continues her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to theorize the production of disability, using Israel's occupation of Palestine as an example of how settler colonial states rely on liberal frameworks of disability to maintain control of bodies and populations.

Produktdetails

• ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780822369189
• ISBN-10: 0822369184
• Artikelnr.: 47354741

Autorenporträt

Jasbir K. Puar is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Hands Up, Don't Shoot!  ix
Acknowledgments  xxv
Introduction: The Cost of Getting Better  1
1. Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled  33
2. Crip Nationalism: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism  63
3. Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of
Reproduction in Palestine/Israel  95
4. "Will Not Let Die": Debilitation and Inhuman Biopolitics in Palestine 
127
Postscript: Treatment without Checkpoints  155
Notes  163
Bibliography  223
Index  261