Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer TimesDuke University Press, 05/10/2007 - 368 páginas 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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... argues is the crux of U.S. prac- tices of targeting the world . By not playing by the disciplinary rules , how- ever , I can offer alternative and submerged geographies — the United States from decidedly underresourced , nonnormative ...
... argues , given that nonlinearity has been embraced as chaos . Ultimately , he seeks to destabilize the opposition between stability and chaos , such that chaos is discharged from its semiotic resonance with violence , upheaval , anarchy ...
... argues that " understanding September 11th re- quires building a narrative starting from the terrorist moment as an in- stance , that is an exemplary incident which , in one moment , allows dif- ferent temporalities to emerge , and with ...
... the Los Angeles- based performance artist Vaginal Davis bizarrely harks to another political era , as if it were long ago , when the notion of the terrorist had a trenchant but distant quality to it . Muñoz argues that Davis's xxii preface.
... argues that Davis's drag performances , encompassing " cross - sex , cross - race minstrelsy , " are terrorist on two levels . Aesthetically , Davis rejects glamour - girl feminine drag in favor of " ground level guerilla ...
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1 the sexuality of terrorism | 37 |
2 abu ghraib and us sexual exceptionalism | 79 |
rereading the lawrence case | 114 |
queer diaspora and practices of profiling | 166 |
queer times terrorist assemblages | 204 |