Jasbir Puar

Jasbir Kaur Puar (* 13. December 1967 ) is an American queer - feminist and professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University .

Career

In 1989 she obtained a Bachelor in Economics and German from Rutgers University. She received her master's degree in Women's Studies from the University of York in England in 1994, after which she earned a Ph.D. in the field of "Ethnic Studies - designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality" at the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. Since 2000 she has been working at Rutgers University .

Her best-known book is The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity , Disability (2017), and she also received an award for Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2017). This work has been translated into several languages, including Spanish and French. She has also published on the topics of South Asia Diaspora Culture in the USA, LGBT Tourism, Terrorism Studies, Surveillance Studies, Intersectionality , Animal Studies, Posthumanism , Homonationalism , Pinkwashing and Palestinian Terrorism.

Books

Terrorist assemblages

In Queer Times, Queer Assemblages, published in 2005, Puar analyzes the war on terrorism as an aggregation of racism , nationalism , patriotism and terrorism and claims that it is "already deeply queer ." Her focus is on terrorist corporealities as opposed to “normative patriotic bodies”, and she argues that “ counter-terrorism discourses are inherently gender-specific, racist, sexualized and nationalized”. By analyzing the American response to the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004, she claims that contemporary discourses on Muslim sexuality only obscure and reproduce a basic belief in American exceptionalism . She also re-articulates the suicide bomber's body as "a queer assemblage that defies queerness-as-sexual-identity," a force to converge , implode and rearrange with time, force, space and body . Finally, Puar focuses on the archetypal Sikh terrorist, turban and beard , to claim that her study of queerness as an assemblage draws attention to " epistemology in conjunction with ontology ".

Puar draws on the “assemblage” approach developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari . In this way, social and political phenomena are viewed as a combination of biological and cultural factors. She criticizes the use of homonationalism in the United States as a justification for the violent implementation of the doctrine of American exceptionalism embodied in the War on Terror . The United States shows its supposedly liberal openness to homosexuality in order to secure its identity in opposition to the sexual oppression in Muslim countries. This oppression is used by the United States as a pretext to "liberate" oppressed women and sexual aberrations in those countries while overcoming sexual inequality in the United States. The exceptionalism of the United States and homonationalism are mutually constitutive and mixed up discourses about the American manifesto Destiny , racist foreign policy and the urge to document the unknown (embodied in the terrorist) and to conquer it by questioning its identity and so it make it manageable and understandable.

Puars Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, published in October 2007, describes connections between the contemporary discourse on "homosexual rights", the integration of homosexuals into consumerism , the rise of "being white" and Western imperialism, and the fight against terrorism. She argues that traditional heteronormative ideologies are now being accompanied by "homonormative" ideologies that replicate the same hierarchical ideals of maintaining dominance over race , class , gender, and nation-state, a series of ideologies she calls "homonationalism" .

The Right to Maim

In The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability , Jasbir K. Puar brings her work on the liberal state, sexuality and biopolitics into our understanding of disability. Puar uses the concept of "weakness" - physical harm and social exclusion from economic and political factors - to break through the disability category. She argues that weakness, disability, and capacity together form an aggregate that states use to control populations. Puar's analysis culminates in a survey of Israeli policy towards Palestine , in which she argues that Israel is bringing Palestinians into a biopolitical being by labeling them as vulnerable.

In his book Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State , literature professor Cary Nelson describes The Right to Maim as "an intellectual and moral hoax [...] removed from any observable reality". According to Nelson, Puar makes a "bizarre" and undocumented claim in The Right to Maim that Israel mines the bodies of Palestinians killed in violent incidents so that body parts can be used in organ transplants. Nelson calls Puar's claim scientifically illegible because bodies killed by gunfire are contaminated with bacteria and are therefore useless as organ transplants. He criticized Duke University Press for "publishing as evidence-based science what is actually baseless slander designed to stir up hatred." The literary scholar David Mikics dismisses Puar's work as "spectacularly biased" against Jews. Historian David Berger describes Puar's claim in The Right to Maim that Israel ordered security officers to shoot protesters in a manner that would maim but not kill them, with the aim of creating a disabled population as a form of slander .

"Blood Defamation" Controversy

On February 3, 2016, Puar gave a lecture at Vassar College on "Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters", in which she highlighted Israeli policy towards Palestine and in particular the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel. She alleged that Israel had a deliberate policy of " mutilation " and "crippling" of the Palestinian people in order to biologically cripple the Palestinian people and weaken their ability to withstand Israeli occupation, while also making them workers or subjects of Israeli experiments to keep alive.

In response to her speech, lawyer Mark Yudof , former president of the University of California , and historian Kenneth Waltzer , professor emeritus of history at Michigan State University , criticized Puar for spreading “hatred of Jews and Israel” and for “updating the medieval” Blood defamation against Jews ”.

Works

• Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), Durham: Duke University Press, ISBN 978-0-8223-4114-7 ; 10th Anniversary Edition (2017) Durham: Duke University Press, ISBN 978-0-8223-7150-2 ; translated into French as: Homonationalism. Politiques queers après le 11 Septembre (2012), Judy Minx (translator,), Paris: Editions Amsterdam, Maxime Cervulle, ISBN 978-2-35480-107-6
• The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability , (2017), Duke University Press.

literature

• Piya Chatterjee, Sunaina Maira: The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent . University of Minnesota Press , Minneapolis 2014, ISBN 978-0-8166-8090-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jasbir K. Puar | Professor, Rutgers University. Retrieved August 5, 2019 (American English). 
2. ^ Rutgers University: CV from Jasbir Puar. (PDF) Retrieved August 5, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Jasbir K. Puar | Professor, Rutgers University. Retrieved August 5, 2019 (American English). 
4. ↑ Jasbir K. Puar. February 22, 2016, accessed August 5, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Jasbir Puar_ Regimes of Surveillance - Cosmologics Magazine | Surveillance | September 11 attacks. Retrieved August 5, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Jasbir Puar: Queer Times, Queer Assemblages. (PDF) Retrieved August 5, 2019 . 
7. ↑ 'The Function of Autonomy': Félix Guattari and New Revolutionary Prospects | Salvage. Retrieved August 5, 2019 . 
8. ^ The Right to Maim. Duke University Press, accessed August 5, 2019 . 
9. ^ In New Book, Rutgers Professor Accuses Israel of Maiming Palestinians for Profit. October 26, 2017, accessed August 5, 2019 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} JewishWebSight: The Big Lie And the toxic BDS professors who tell it. In: Jewish website. July 17, 2019, Retrieved August 5, 2019 (American English). 
11. ^ Campus Week: Ivory Tower Bigots. October 16, 2018, accessed August 5, 2019 . 
12. ^ David Berger: Academic Prize For Scholarly Form Of Blood Libel. Retrieved August 5, 2019 (American English). 
13. ^ Jarrod Tanny: In My Country There Is Problem. June 24, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019 (American English). 
14. ^ Vassar Jewish Studies Sponsors Demonization of Israel ... Again. In: Observer. February 9, 2016, accessed August 5, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Mark G. Yudof and Ken Waltzer: Majoring in anti-Semitism at Vassar. Retrieved August 5, 2019 (American English).