Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)
by Jasbir K. Puar
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Author: Jasbir K. PuarEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10
ISBN: 082234114X
Number of pages: 335
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Book Review: Pretentious rubbish
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For a brilliant denunciation of the ridiculous academic jargon that this book is written in, see the Times Literary Supplement for December 7 2007 (page 32). More and more it is clear that the 'Women's and Gender Studies' departments of universities are simply collections of individuals undergoing group therapy at public expense. Close them all down and save the English language!
Summary of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)
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 more 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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