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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... decriminalization of sodomy in the United States; the global (albeit uneven) incorporation of various versions of legalized gay marriage and domestic partnership; the rise of a global gay tactics, strategies, logistics xiii.
... sodomy, gay mar- riage, and gay adoption—in contrast to the sold-out politics embedded within market interpellations of lgbtiq subjects, with the question of re- sistance always at the core of this polarity. Rather than emphasizing the ...
... sodomy in the United States , the spate of racial backlash crimes against Muslims and Sikhs , the detention and deportation of suspected terrorists , and post - 9 / 11 organizing . But both frames — snap- shot , through its relation to ...
... sodomy between consensual adults in the United States in June 2003. The language of the Lawrence decision imagines the homosexual subject as a queer liberal one , invested in consumption , property ownership , and intimate , stable ...
... sodomy laws ren- dered in the Lawrence and Garner v . Texas decision . By underscoring circuits of homosexual nationalism , I note that some homosexual subjects are com- plicit with heterosexual nationalist formations rather than ...
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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 |