Terrorist Assemblages

Posted on 03 August 2018 by Jasbir K. Puar

In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation state, through developments including the legal recognition inherent in the overturning of anti sodomy laws and the proliferation of mainstream representation These incorporations have shifted many queers from their construction as figures of death via the AIDS epidemic to subjects tied to ideas of life and productivity gay marriage and reproductive kinship Puar contends, however, that this tenuous inclusion of some queer subjects depends on the production of populations of Orientalized terrorist bodies Heteronormative ideologies that the U.S nation state has long relied on are now accompanied by homonormative ideologies that replicate narrow racial, class, gender, and national ideals These homonationalisms are deployed to distinguish upright properly hetero, and now properly homo, U.S patriots from perversely sexualized and racialized terrorist look a likes especially Sikhs, Muslims, and Arabs who are cordoned off for detention and deportation Puar combines transnational feminist and queer theory, Foucauldian biopolitics, Deleuzian philosophy, and technoscience criticism, and draws from an extraordinary range of sources, including governmental texts, legal decisions, films, television, ethnographic data, queer media, and activist organizing materials and manifestos Looking at various cultural events and phenomena, she highlights troublesome links between terrorism and sexuality in feminist and queer responses to the Abu Ghraib photographs, in the triumphal responses to the Supreme Court s Lawrence decision repealing anti sodomy laws, in the measures Sikh Americans and South Asian diasporic queers take to avoid being profiled as terrorists, and in what Puar argues is a growing Islamophobia within global queer organizing. 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Puar ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr the most cynical and careerist thing i ve ever read i have no idea why this person is so hostile towards critical thought it s taken me at least 3 years to read it everytime i open it, try to start, get angry and put it down according to jasbir, in a fashion described so as to be taken as a rather fixed sequence of causality, we are affect prior to our identities in other words i could be a straight woman and then pretend to have the stunning insight that some queers are not inherently oppo the most cynical and careerist thing i ve ever read i have no idea why this person is so hostile towards critical thought it s taken me at least 3 years to read it everytime i open it, try to start, get angry and put it down according to jasbir, in a fashion described so as to be taken as a rather fixed sequence of causality, we are affect prior to our identities in other words i could be a straight woman and then pretend to have the stunning insight that some queers are not inherently oppositional gee, what have i been organizing about for the last decade what have people been organizing about for a...Rating this book doesn t seem appropriate because while I couldn t say I liked very much of the reading of it, it is of irrefutable importance in my field so I will need to find my way into it Some have said it is impossible to read, but as a literature student I didn t have a problem with it I will admit I was happy to have finished reading it As Puar is rather imaginative and creative with language, when I couldn t pin down a meaning I just accepted that and continued on, knowing that the m Rating this book doesn t seem appropriate because while I couldn t say I liked very much of the reading of it, it is of irrefutable importance in my field so I will need to find my way into it Some have said it is impossible to read, but as a literature student I didn t have a problem with it I will admit I was happy to have finished reading it As Puar is rather imaginative and creative with language, when I couldn t pin down a meaning I just accepted that and continued on, knowing that the meaning would come to me I will be tracing some of her paths and branching off from her work based on her amazing works cited over the summer at least In a review, someone suggested that one should just read the introduction and conclusion if you are not into theory I wouldn t read it at all if you are not interested in theory If you are interested in theory, read the book The introduction and conclusion are the most difficult to read I found the chapters much eas...Jasbir Puar is hardcore No one is safe from the wrath of her pen Combining theory, metaphor and oodles of concrete examples, Puar shows how certain groups of people are able to assimilate, how others use that selective assimilation as an excuse to consider themselves exceptional, and how the world of torture, terrorism, and its reflection in popular culture and academia sometimes act in tandem to oppress or erase unacceptable populations The introduction and preface are both theory heavy and Jasbir Puar is hardcore No one is safe from the wrath of her pen Combining ...Paur s Terrorist Assemblages is an example of theory allowed to substitute for concrete analysis In the end, Paur s argument is simply onechapter in the arguments Q vs R , it was called in the Eighties between those in the gay world who see same sex preferences as only one factor in life, and those who hope to see queerness as a tool for radical subversion In the end, Paur has simply used postcolonial theory to attack the idea of gay as...This book argues that in these fearful times formed by the global war on terror and neoliberal capitalist policies that queer identities are being commodified by white heterosexual society in order tofully control the processes of the body, the mind, and most important...I am a Ph D candidate at an ELITE Research One University, and I could not understand this book My professor didn t know how to teach it to us, and he s a very smart dude What does that say about this text Not good things, I must say.Some day I want to write like Jasbir Puar That is all.In my search for books to use as the focus of my MFA project, this is definitely one of the best books I ve come across It flows from the richly productive intersection of queer theory, postcolonial theory and poststructuralist theory, as the title implies Yet this author isn t content to demonstrate how a concept from Deleuze is demonstrated by her example, she vibrantly puts thes...This is definitely one of the most important texts of the last decade with a great complicated argument a good thing because complicated problems require complicated analysis I m not much of a theory head and this book is full of academic language sometimes excessively and unneccessarily so but I didn t really find it that hard to follow I enjoyed this argument a lotthe times I read it in essay form though Also I do wish that if Pu...Though a complicated and challenging book that at time suffers from being too wrapped up in academic jargon, it dares you to think of queerness and embodiment in new ways Like Heather Love of Feeling Backward Loss and the Politics of Queer History, Puar posits a radical queer...

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03 August 2018

Jasbir K. Puar