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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... war on terror and the political forces pushing for an Iranian invasion , if not a tacit acceptance of the pending occupation itself . Terrorist Assemblages : Homonationalism in Queer Times is an invitation to deeper exploration of these ...
... terror , war , securitization , torture , empire , and violence examined in this text , and a move toward collecting , shaping , and interrogating an archive that will be available for future historicization . This project is thus ...
... terrorist and citizen bodies . My goal is to present a dexterous portrait , signaling attentiveness to how , why ... war on terror . The terms of degeneracy have shifted such that homosexuality is no longer a priori ex- cluded from ...
... terrorist " corporealities as well as to homosexual pa- triots . The " sexual torture scandal " at Abu Ghraib is an ... war on terror , it must temporarily suspend its heteronormative imagined com- munity to consolidate national ...
... terrorist corporealities , homo- sexual subjects who have limited legal rights within the U.S. civil context gain significant representational currency when situated within the global scene of the war on terror . Taking the position ...
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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 |