The Right to Maim

Jasbir K. Puar

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Language: English

Published by Duke University Press, US, 2017

0822368927 / 9780822368922

Series: Book 3 of 15 - ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise

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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, in which she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury. Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies. Tracing disability's interaction with debility and capacity, Puar offers a brilliant rethinking of Foucauldian biopolitics while showing how disability functions at the intersection of imperialism and racialized capital.…

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Title
The Right to Maim
Author
Jasbir K. Puar
Publisher
Duke University Press, US
Publication year
2017
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New
Binding
Hardback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0822368927
ISBN 13
9780822368922
Item weight
544 grams
Series
Book 3 of 15: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise

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