Screen LibraryThe right to maim : debility, capacity, disability /
In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of "debility"--Bodily injury and soc...
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Duke University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Durham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of "debility"--Bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors--to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how debility, disability, and capacity together constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations. Puar's analysis culminates in an interrogation of Israel's policies toward Palestine, |
| Carrier Form: | xxviii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-260) and index. |
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9780822369189 (paperback) : 0822369184 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | HV1568 |
| CLC: | C913.69-05 |
| Call Number: | C913.69-05/P976 |
| Contents: | Preface: Hands up, don't shoot! -- Introduction: The cost of getting better -- Bodies with new organs : becoming trans, becoming disabled -- Crip nationalism : from narrative prosthesis to disaster capitalism -- Disabled diaspora, rehabilitating state : the queer politics of reproduction in Palestine/Israel -- "Will not let die" : debilitation and inhuman biopolitics in Palestine -- Postscript: Treatment without checkpoints. |