Research Article| September 01 2002 Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots Jasbir K. Puar; Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amit S. Rai Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 117–148. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-3_72-117 Cite Icon Share Twitter Permissions Citation Puar, Rai; Patriots. 1 2002; doi: Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar...

“I would rather be a cyborg than goddess”Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory Jasbir K. Puar “Grids happen” writes Brian Massumi, at moment Parables for the Virtual where one is tempted to swept away by endless affirmative becomings of movement, flux, and potential, as opposed being pinned down retroactive positioning identity (2002, 8). For most part, Massumi has been less interested how grids happen asking they can un-happen, or not happen. What tension between two purportedly...

In my 2007 monograph Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (hereafter TA ), I develop the conceptual frame of “homonationalism” for understanding complexities how “acceptance” and “tolerance” gay lesbian subjects have become a barometer by which right to capacity national sovereignty is evaluated. had increasingly frustrated with standard refrain transnational feminist discourse as well queer theories that unequivocally stated, quite vociferously throughout 1990s, nation...

In this paper I argue that the Orientalist invocation of 'terrorist' is one discursive tactic disaggregates US national gays and queers from racial sexual 'others', foregrounding a collusion between homosexuality American nationalism generated both by rhetorics patriotic inclusion gay, lesbian, queer subjects themselves: homo-nationalism. For contemporary forms patriotism, production lesbian bodies crucial to deployment nationalism, insofar as these perverse reiterate heterosexuality norm...

This article brings into conversation theories of affect, particularly those emerging from technoscience criticism that foreground bodily capacities for affecting or being affected, change, evolution, transformation, and movement, studies disability debility which complicate these notions capacity, even while privileging identity-based rights representational politics might reinscribe other forms normativity. I argue a deconstruction what ability capacity mean, affective otherwise, to push...

With reference to the ongoing economic “crisis,” several European and American scholars discuss concept politics of precarity. As their conversation shows, precarity is inextricable from our ever-shifting understandings bodies, labor, politics, public sphere, space, life, human, what it means live with others.

Research Article| December 01 2005 Queer Times, Assemblages Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 121–139. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-3-4_84-85-121 Cite Icon Share Twitter Permissions Citation Puar; Assemblages. 1 2005; doi: Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Dropdown Menu nav input auto suggest filter Books & JournalsAll...

Research Article| April 01 2002 CIRCUITS OF QUEER MOBILITY: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization Jasbir Kaur Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (1-2): 101–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-1-2-101 Cite Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Citation Puar; Globalization. 1 2002; doi: Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Dropdown Menu input auto...

This essay examines the potential for using affective connectivities to rethink neoliberal stratification. Because discourses surrounding queer suicide reproduce problematic assumptions not only about race, class, and gender but also bodily health, debility, capacity, I link Dan Savage's “It Gets Better” project related discussions recent spate of suicides broader social justice issues disability as well theoretical concerns in animal studies posthumanist studies.

Research Article| June 01 2015 Theorizing Queer Inhumanisms José Esteban Muñoz; Muñoz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jinthana Haritaworn; Haritaworn Myra Hird; Hird Zakiyyah Iman Jackson; Jackson Jasbir K. Puar; Puar Eileen Joy; Joy Uri McMillan; McMillan Susan Stryker; Stryker Kim TallBear; TallBear Jami Weinstein; Weinstein ... Show more Jack Halberstam GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 209–248. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2843323 Cite Icon Share Facebook Twitter...

“Left of Queer” examines historical and theoretical developments in the evolving field queer studies since 2005 Social Text special issue “What’s Queer about Studies Now?” In particular, it focuses on three themes: first, explores possibilities an expanded subjectless critique by interrogating not only formative exclusions but also contingent material conditions through which “proper” subjects identities emerge today; second, reexamines long-standing debates materialism incommensurability...

“Transgender rights are the civil issue of our time.” So stated Vice President Joe Biden just one week before November 2012 election. This article critically reframes calls such as this by foregrounding a historical trajectory not celebrated national LGBT groups or media explicitly theorized in most queer trans theory: move from 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act to present moment hailing US state. Such helps map ways that neoliberal mandates regarding productive, capacitated bodies...

Research Article| April 01 2016 Queer Theory and Permanent War Maya Mikdashi; Mikdashi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jasbir K. Puar GLQ (2016) 22 (2): 215–222. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3428747 Views Icon Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Permissions Cite Citation Mikdashi, Puar; War. 1 2016; doi: Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley...

This article frames queer tourism through two lenses. First, I explore how and spatiality occlude questions of gender efface the varied modalities travel, tourism, mobility, space/place–making activities women, especially with respect to women lesbians. Second, point out neocolonial impulses all travel by highlighting colonial history production mobility modernity, vice versa. Following M Jacqui Alexander’s (1997) claim that white gay capital follows path heterosexual capital, are queers...