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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... 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 the mechanisms by ...
... tion in the post – civil rights , late twentieth century , these various entries by queers into the biopolitical optimization of life mark a shift , as homosexual bodies have been historically understood as endlessly cathected to death ...
... tion ... necessary for the perpetuation of the United States ' political and ideological hegemony " ) only intensifies . This project may fail in fully dis- placing the self - referential eye / I that Chow argues is the crux of U.S. ...
... tion so powerful that it may blind the past even as it spotlights the present and lights up the future . Terrorist Assemblages emerges as a story about various events that operate as both snapshots and flashpoints : of September 11 ...
... tion . I reread the privacy and intimacy debates of Lawrence through a dif- ferent set of optics : the 1996 Immigration and Welfare Reform Act , the USA patriot Act ( Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools ...
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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 |