J K Puar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 27887 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J K Puar |
| NOMBRES | J K |
| APELLIDO | Puar |
| FIRMA | PUAR J K |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-6002-9785 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2567 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
The turban is not a hat’
Elastic Empire
Intersectionality’s contestations – deepening engagement within the field
Le droit de mutiler
À l'été 2014, les mouvements Black Lives Matter et Free Palestine convergent. C'est l'occasion pour la théoricienne transdisciplinaire Jasbir K. Puar de réfléchir à la dévalidation forcée des populations racialisées. S'appuyant sur les théories handies décoloniales et crip-of-color , Puar considère la manière dont les corps non-blancs sont exclus de la reconnaissance du handicap. Alors que les meurtres policiers de personnes noires aux États-Unis…
On Remaindered Life
Neferti X. M. Tadiar discusses her book Remaindered Life with Erica R. Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir K. Puar
Repensando o homonacionalismo
O presente artigo foi publicado na revista International Journal of Middle East Studies, Cambridge, n. 45, p. 336-339, 2013. A revista Caderno Espaço Feminino agradece à pesquisadora Jasbir Puar pela autorização da tradução
Revolutionary Enclosures (Until the Apricots)
Jasbir K. Puar and Dima Srouji build upon their respective work in architecture, visual art and decolonial theory to produce a collaborative examination of colonial pathologies for Sharjah Art Biennial 15, 2023. Srouji’s architecture and art practice encompass a variety of mediums that allow her to explore notions of heritage and public space in Palestine and the region. Puar is a writer and scholar whose current work focuses on settler colonial …
Forum on Rahul Rao’s Out of Time, Part II
In this Forum, six scholars reflect on Rahul Rao’s recent book Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality from other geographies, themes and radical possibilities. Part II explores the analytic of homonationalism in dialogue with Rao’s Out of Time. Jasbir Puar, who coined the term in an earlier path-breaking work, thinks with and against Rao’s book on the relations between homonationalism and what Rao called homocapitalism. Puar also expl…
Whither Homonationalism?
What is homonationalism in the context of increasing global authoritarianisms? If homonationalism is an analytic that flags the alliances between LGBTQ populations and national ideologies, contemporary confluences render somewhat imperceptible these alignments. Authoritarian regimes in the United States, Brazil, India, Turkey, Israel, Philippines and Hungary are not only antithetical to but increasingly assaultive towards queer, transgender and w…
In Solidarity
A N D rare glimpse of Judith Butler's coming-of-age young adult years in a film by Bruce Robbins titled Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists. 1 In this talking-heads documentary featuring the who's who of anti-Zionist Jewish Americans, Butler recounts bringing home some of Edward Said's writings, presumably to solicit reasoned political debate during the family dinner.But their infuriated mother, having none of it, lifted up the table where they …
Spatial Debilities
This article examines the production of mobility obstacles and restrictions in Palestine, highlighting dimensions of the logistics of border crossings and movement in the West Bank in relation to disability rights frameworks. It argues two things: that the creation of what Celeste Langan calls "mobility disabilities" through corporeal assault as well as infrastructural and bureaucratic means is not only central to the calculus of the occupation b…
Beyond Trigger Warnings
This roundtable asks what queer studies might offer to an analysis of debates on campus safety. New approaches in queer studies take as their object of study not only sex and gender but also the cultural politics of liberalism; in turn, scholarship on the geopolitics of injury demonstrates the situatedness of both identity and economic forms. Brought together, these scholarly approaches provide an important lens on many of the contradictions of c…
Atmospherics of War A Response
This brief response to Neel Ahuja’s “Animal Death as National Debility” focuses on his analysis of the intersections of speciesism, racism, and ableism in Syrian war narratives. Ahuja insightfully untangles a media-driven, over-determined portrayal of the Syrian uprisings that began in 2011, as well as the subsequent war that was framed as one of the world’s first “climate wars.” The appropriation of war terminology in the framing of “climate war…
Homonationalisme og biopolitik
Terrorist Assemblages
Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition Ten years on, Jasbir K. Puar’s 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 nati…
Terrorist Assemblages
People are now coming out of the closet on the word empire,'' said the conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer.''The fact is no country has been as dominant culturally, economically, technologically and militarily in the history of the world since the Roman Empire.''The metaphor of coming out is striking, part of a broader trend of appropriating the language of progressive movements in the service of empire.How outrageous to apply the language…
The Right to Maim
Many things are lost in the naming of a death as a "gay youth suicide." 1 In what follows, I offer a preliminary analy sis of the prolific media attention to gay youth suicides that began in the fall of 2010. 2 I am interested in how the hailing of this event recalls affective attachments to neoliberalism that index a privileged geopolitics of finance capitalism.These tragic deaths were memorialized in numerous public statements, vigils, and publ…
Queer Theory and Permanent War
Research Article| April 01 2016 Queer Theory and Permanent War Maya Mikdashi; Maya Mikdashi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jasbir K. Puar Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (2): 215–222. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3428747 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Emai…
Homonacionalismo como mosaico
Neste artigo irei contextualizar o aumento do número de movimentos de gays e lésbicas no âmbito dos debates sobre os discursos dos direitos e da temática dos direitos, que é seguramente o mais forte afrodisíaco do liberalismo. Analiso o modo como a sexualidade se tornou parte de uma formação essencial na articulação de cidadãos plenos através dos vários registos, como género, classe e etnia, quer nacional, quer transnacionalmente. Este estudo pos…
Civility, Academic Freedom, and the Project of Decolonization
Theorizing Queer Inhumanisms
Research Article| June 01 2015 Theorizing Queer Inhumanisms José Esteban Muñoz; José Esteban Muñoz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jinthana Haritaworn; Jinthana Haritaworn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Myra Hird; Myra Hird Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Zakiyyah Iman Jackson; Zakiyyah Iman Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jasbir K…
Bodies with New Organs
Transgender rights are the civil rights issue of our time." So stated Vice President Joe Biden just one week before the November 2012 election. This article critically reframes calls such as this by foregrounding a historical trajectory not celebrated by national LGBT groups or media or explicitly theorized in most queer or trans theory: the move from the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act to the present moment of trans hailing by the US state.…
Disability
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Reading religion back into Terrorist Assemblages
In this author's response, Jasbir Puar furthers the conversation between her book Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press) and contemporary trends in theories of the theological, religious and secular. It begins with a consideration of the 'viral' travels of 'homonationalism,' a term that has moved across many geographies and political terrains since its coining. The response then focuses on …
Out of Place
Terrorist Assemblages
People are now coming out of the closet on the word empire,'' said the conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer.''The fact is no country has been as dominant culturally, economically, technologically and militarily in the history of the world since the Roman Empire.''The metaphor of coming out is striking, part of a broader trend of appropriating the language of progressive movements in the service of empire.How outrageous to apply the language…
The Right to Maim
Many things are lost in the naming of a death as a "gay youth suicide." 1 In what follows, I offer a preliminary analy sis of the prolific media attention to gay youth suicides that began in the fall of 2010. 2 I am interested in how the hailing of this event recalls affective attachments to neoliberalism that index a privileged geopolitics of finance capitalism.These tragic deaths were memorialized in numerous public statements, vigils, and publ…
Rethinking Homonationalism
In my 2007 monograph Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (hereafter TA ), I develop the conceptual frame of “homonationalism” for understanding the complexities of how “acceptance” and “tolerance” for gay and lesbian subjects have become a barometer by which the right to and capacity for national sovereignty is evaluated. I had become increasingly frustrated with the standard refrain of transnational feminist discourse as well a…
Monster, Terrorist, Fag
Research Article| September 01 2002 Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots Jasbir K. Puar; Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amit S. Rai Amit S. Rai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 117-148. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-3_72-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citatio…
I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess
I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess"Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory Jasbir K. Puar "Grids happen" writes Brian Massumi, at a moment in Parables for the Virtual where one is tempted to be swept away by the endless affirmative becomings of movement, flux, and potential, as opposed to being pinned down by the retroactive positioning of identity (2002, 8). For the most part, Massumi has been less interested in how grids happen than…
Mapping US Homonormativities
In this paper I argue that the Orientalist invocation of the 'terrorist' is one discursive tactic that disaggregates US national gays and queers from racial and sexual 'others', foregrounding a collusion between homosexuality and American nationalism that is generated both by national rhetorics of patriotic inclusion and by gay, lesbian, and queer subjects themselves: homo-nationalism. For contemporary forms of US nationalism and patriotism, the …
Queer Times, Queer Assemblages
Research Article| December 01 2005 Queer Times, Queer Assemblages Jasbir K. Puar 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 Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jasbir K. Puar; Queer Times, Queer Assemblages. Social Text 1 December 2005; 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 121-139. doi: https://doi.org/1…
Prognosis time
This article brings into conversation theories of affect, particularly those emerging from technoscience criticism that foreground bodily capacities for affecting or being affected, for change, evolution, transformation, and movement, and studies of disability and debility which complicate these notions of capacity, even while privileging identity-based rights and representational politics that might reinscribe other forms of normativity. I argue…
Circuits of Queer Mobility
Research Article| April 01 2002 CIRCUITS OF QUEER MOBILITY: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization Jasbir Kaur Puar 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 Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jasbir Kaur Puar; CIRCUITS OF QUEER MOBILITY: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization. GLQ 1 Apri…
Coda
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 about bodily health, debility, and capacity, I link Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" project and related discussions about the recent spate of queer suicides to broader social justice issues about disability as well as …
Interspecies
This introduction to the journal's special issue on Interspecies takes stock of the recent intellectual histories of animal studies and posthumanism, arguing for interspecies as a way to navigate new directions in these intellectual formations. Interspecies is a framing paradigm that names the articulation of human/non-human binaries and human/animal/plant taxonomies as interrelated, even as these continue to operate in congealed and differentiat…
Theorizing Queer Inhumanisms
Research Article| June 01 2015 Theorizing Queer Inhumanisms José Esteban Muñoz; José Esteban Muñoz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jinthana Haritaworn; Jinthana Haritaworn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Myra Hird; Myra Hird Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Zakiyyah Iman Jackson; Zakiyyah Iman Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jasbir K…
Citation and Censorship
Queer Theory and Permanent War
Research Article| April 01 2016 Queer Theory and Permanent War Maya Mikdashi; Maya Mikdashi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jasbir K. Puar Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (2): 215–222. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3428747 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Emai…
Bodies with New Organs
Transgender rights are the civil rights issue of our time." So stated Vice President Joe Biden just one week before the November 2012 election. This article critically reframes calls such as this by foregrounding a historical trajectory not celebrated by national LGBT groups or media or explicitly theorized in most queer or trans theory: the move from the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act to the present moment of trans hailing by the US state.…
A Transnational Feminist Critique of Queer Tourism
This article frames queer tourism through two lenses. First, I explore how queer tourism and queer spatiality occlude questions of gender and efface the varied modalities of travel, tourism, mobility, and space/place–making activities of women, especially with respect to queer women and lesbians. Second, I point out the neocolonial impulses of all queer travel by highlighting the colonial history of travel and tourism and the production of mobili…
The Remaking of a Model Minority
Abu Ghraib
Such dehumanization is unacceptable in any culture, but it is especially so in the Arab world. Homosexual acts are against Islamic law and it is humiliating for men to be naked in front of other men, Bernard Haykel, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at New York University, explained. Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other-it's all a form of torture, Haykel said. -Seymour M. Hersh
Sexuality and Space
The Turban Is Not a Hat’
This article examines two facets of post 9–11 South Asian organizing in the US – that of South Asian queer diasporics and of Sikh Americans. Ironically, South Asian queer diasporic subjects are under even greater duress to produce themselves as exceptional American subjects, not necessarily as heteronormative but as homonormative, even as the queernesses of these very bodies are simultaneously used to pathologize populations of terrorist look-a-l…
Spatial Debilities
This article examines the production of mobility obstacles and restrictions in Palestine, highlighting dimensions of the logistics of border crossings and movement in the West Bank in relation to disability rights frameworks. It argues two things: that the creation of what Celeste Langan calls "mobility disabilities" through corporeal assault as well as infrastructural and bureaucratic means is not only central to the calculus of the occupation b…
Affect
This essay traces Fredric Jameson's important early analyses of the waning of affect and disappearance of the depth psychological subject under conditions of postmodernism, arguments he developed over the course of several essays in Social Text —beginning, in fact, in the journal's very first issue. This brief survey of Jameson's argument launches a sketch of the multiple genealogies and political uptakes of the term affect in more recent scholar…
Disability
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Reading religion back into Terrorist Assemblages
In this author's response, Jasbir Puar furthers the conversation between her book Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press) and contemporary trends in theories of the theological, religious and secular. It begins with a consideration of the 'viral' travels of 'homonationalism,' a term that has moved across many geographies and political terrains since its coining. The response then focuses on …
Intersectionality’s contestations – deepening engagement within the field
Transnational Configurations of Desire
Global Circuits
A Transnational Feminist Critique of Queer Tourism
This article frames queer tourism through two lenses. First, I explore how queer tourism and queer spatiality occlude questions of gender and efface the varied modalities of travel, tourism, mobility, and space/place–making activities of women, especially with respect to queer women and lesbians. Second, I point out the neocolonial impulses of all queer travel by highlighting the colonial history of travel and tourism and the production of mobili…
Circuits of Queer Mobility
Research Article| April 01 2002 CIRCUITS OF QUEER MOBILITY: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization Jasbir Kaur Puar 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 Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jasbir Kaur Puar; CIRCUITS OF QUEER MOBILITY: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization. GLQ 1 Apri…
Monster, Terrorist, Fag
Research Article| September 01 2002 Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots Jasbir K. Puar; Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amit S. Rai Amit S. Rai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 117-148. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-3_72-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citatio…
Sexuality and Space
Abu Ghraib
Such dehumanization is unacceptable in any culture, but it is especially so in the Arab world. Homosexual acts are against Islamic law and it is humiliating for men to be naked in front of other men, Bernard Haykel, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at New York University, explained. Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other-it's all a form of torture, Haykel said. -Seymour M. Hersh
The Remaking of a Model Minority
Queer Times, Queer Assemblages
Research Article| December 01 2005 Queer Times, Queer Assemblages Jasbir K. Puar 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 Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jasbir K. Puar; Queer Times, Queer Assemblages. Social Text 1 December 2005; 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 121-139. doi: https://doi.org/1…
Mapping US Homonormativities
In this paper I argue that the Orientalist invocation of the 'terrorist' is one discursive tactic that disaggregates US national gays and queers from racial and sexual 'others', foregrounding a collusion between homosexuality and American nationalism that is generated both by national rhetorics of patriotic inclusion and by gay, lesbian, and queer subjects themselves: homo-nationalism. For contemporary forms of US nationalism and patriotism, the …
Terrorist Assemblages
The Turban Is Not a Hat’
This article examines two facets of post 9–11 South Asian organizing in the US – that of South Asian queer diasporics and of Sikh Americans. Ironically, South Asian queer diasporic subjects are under even greater duress to produce themselves as exceptional American subjects, not necessarily as heteronormative but as homonormative, even as the queernesses of these very bodies are simultaneously used to pathologize populations of terrorist look-a-l…
Prognosis time
This article brings into conversation theories of affect, particularly those emerging from technoscience criticism that foreground bodily capacities for affecting or being affected, for change, evolution, transformation, and movement, and studies of disability and debility which complicate these notions of capacity, even while privileging identity-based rights and representational politics that might reinscribe other forms of normativity. I argue…
Affect
This essay traces Fredric Jameson's important early analyses of the waning of affect and disappearance of the depth psychological subject under conditions of postmodernism, arguments he developed over the course of several essays in Social Text —beginning, in fact, in the journal's very first issue. This brief survey of Jameson's argument launches a sketch of the multiple genealogies and political uptakes of the term affect in more recent scholar…
Citation and Censorship
Interspecies
This introduction to the journal's special issue on Interspecies takes stock of the recent intellectual histories of animal studies and posthumanism, arguing for interspecies as a way to navigate new directions in these intellectual formations. Interspecies is a framing paradigm that names the articulation of human/non-human binaries and human/animal/plant taxonomies as interrelated, even as these continue to operate in congealed and differentiat…
Precarity Talk
With reference to the ongoing economic “crisis,” several European and American scholars discuss the concept and politics of precarity. As their conversation shows, precarity is inextricable from our ever-shifting understandings of bodies, labor, politics, the public sphere, space, life, the human, and what it means to live with others
I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess
I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess"Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory Jasbir K. Puar "Grids happen" writes Brian Massumi, at a moment in Parables for the Virtual where one is tempted to be swept away by the endless affirmative becomings of movement, flux, and potential, as opposed to being pinned down by the retroactive positioning of identity (2002, 8). For the most part, Massumi has been less interested in how grids happen than…
Coda
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 about bodily health, debility, and capacity, I link Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" project and related discussions about the recent spate of queer suicides to broader social justice issues about disability as well as …
Homonationalisme et biopolitique
L’‘homonationalisme’ désigne l’inclusion de l’homosexualité dans le discours national produit notamment par les États-Unis dans leur « guerre contre le terrorisme », proclamant la supériorité sur les autres d’une civilisation qui aurait aboli toute oppression sexuelle — alors même que les homosexuel∙le∙s de ce pays continuent de souffrir de discriminations et d’une oppression directement liée à leur sexualité. Opposant les identités gay et musulm…
Rethinking Homonationalism
In my 2007 monograph Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (hereafter TA ), I develop the conceptual frame of “homonationalism” for understanding the complexities of how “acceptance” and “tolerance” for gay and lesbian subjects have become a barometer by which the right to and capacity for national sovereignty is evaluated. I had become increasingly frustrated with the standard refrain of transnational feminist discourse as well a…
Disability
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Reading religion back into Terrorist Assemblages
In this author's response, Jasbir Puar furthers the conversation between her book Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press) and contemporary trends in theories of the theological, religious and secular. It begins with a consideration of the 'viral' travels of 'homonationalism,' a term that has moved across many geographies and political terrains since its coining. The response then focuses on …
Homonacionalismo como mosaico
Neste artigo irei contextualizar o aumento do número de movimentos de gays e lésbicas no âmbito dos debates sobre os discursos dos direitos e da temática dos direitos, que é seguramente o mais forte afrodisíaco do liberalismo. Analiso o modo como a sexualidade se tornou parte de uma formação essencial na articulação de cidadãos plenos através dos vários registos, como género, classe e etnia, quer nacional, quer transnacionalmente. Este estudo pos…
Civility, Academic Freedom, and the Project of Decolonization
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