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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... into account feminist, queer, and transnational contributions to these conversations by highlighting hetero- normative framings and absent analytics. In the spirit of such disruptions , Terrorist Assemblages engages xiv preface.
... feminist and queer theorizing on terrorist subjectivities to unwit- tingly reproduce these investments . Using Edward Said's Orientalism to read various episodes of the satirical cartoon comedy show South Park , I demonstrate that the ...
... feminist , postcolonial , and queer theorists . This outlaw status is mediated through the rise during the 1980s and 1990s of the gay con- sumer , pursued by marketers who claimed that childless homosexuals had enormous disposable ...
... feminism , constructing American women as saviors and rescuers of the ' oppressed women . ' " The recent embrace of the case of Afghani and Iraqi women and Muslim women in general by western feminists has generated many forms of U.S. ...
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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 |