Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism In Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions In Women'S Studies) - 9780822371113

Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition Ten years on, Jasbir K. PuarÆs pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits. 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, shifting queers from their construction as figures of death to subjects tied to ideas of life and productivity. This tenuous inclusion of some queer subjects depends, however, 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 what Puar calls homonationalismùa fusing of homosexuality to U.S. pro-war, pro-imperialist agendas. As a concept and tool of biopolitical management, homonationalism is here to stay. PuarÆs incisive analyses of feminist and queer responses to the Abu Ghraib photographs, the decriminalization of sodomy in the wake of the Patriot Act, and the profiling of Sikh Americans and South Asian diasporic queers are not instances of a particular historical moment; rather, they are reflective of the dynamics saturating power, sexuality, race, and politics today. This Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition features a new foreword by Tavia NyongÆo and a postscript by Puar entitled ôHomonationalism in Trump Times.ö NyongÆo and Puar recontextualize the book in light of the current political moment while reposing its original questions to illuminate how PuarÆs interventions are even more vital and necessary than ever.

• | Author: Jasbir K. Puar
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: Dec 22, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 392 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 0822371111
• | ISBN-13: 9780822371113