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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... race , gender , na- tion , class , and ethnicity in relation to the tactics , strategies , and logistics of war machines . This project critiques the fostering , managing , and valoriz- ing of life and all that sustains it , describing ...
... racial privilege , consumption capabilities , gender and kinship normativity , and bodily integrity . The con ... race . " The emergence and sanctioning of queer subjecthood is a historical shift condoned only through a parallel ...
... race, and patholo- gized nationality has been examined and interrogated by theorists working on transnational sexualities and queer diasporic identities, sexual citizen- ship, consumption practices in relation to legislative gains and ...
... race , gender , and sex- uality . " 29 It is imperative to note that guerrillas and terrorists have vastly different national and racial valences , the former bringing to mind the phantasmatic landscapes of Central and South America ...
... race , gender , class , nation , and religion that permeate constructions of terror and terror- ist bodies . I argue ... racial norm . Chapter 1 , " The Sexuality of Terrorism , " elaborates on the rise of U.S. homonationalism ...
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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 |