Jasbir Puar: Difference between revisions

Raised in the [[Basking Ridge, New Jersey|Basking Ridge]] section of [[Bernards Township, New Jersey]], Puar graduated in 1985 from [[Ridge High School]].<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/97143713/ "Urban Skills Project Helps Ease Trauma Of The Past"], ''Bernardsville News'', August 29, 1985. Accessed April 21, 2021, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Editor's Note: The three articles on this page were written by Jasbir K. Puar of Basking Ridge, a summer intern at ''The Bemardsville News.''.... She graduated from Ridge High School in June and will attend Rutgers University."</ref> She received her B.A. in Economics and German from Rutgers in 1989. She has an M.A. in Women's Studies from the [[University of York]] and completed her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at [[University of California at Berkeley]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|title=Current Institutional Affiliation(s)|url=http://asci.researchhub.ssrc.org/jasbir-k-puar/person_view |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723170546/http://asci.researchhub.ssrc.org/jasbir-k-puar/person_view |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 23, 2011|access-date=February 24, 2011}}</ref> Since 2000 she has been working at Rutgers University at the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Department. From 2014 to 2020 Puar was the graduate director of women's studies and gender studies at Rutgers.

Puar draws from the "[[Assemblage (philosophy)|assemblage"]] approach developed by [[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Félix Guattari]].<ref>Andrew Ryder, "'The Function of Autonomy': Félix Guattari and New Revolutionary Prospects." ''Salvage'' 2018. [http://salvage.zone/online-exclusive/the-function-of-autonomy-felix-guattari-and-new-revolutionary-prospects/]</ref> This is a way of viewing social and political phenomena as a combination of biological and cultural factors. She critiques the deployment of [[homonationalism]] in the United States as a justification to violently implement the doctrine of American exceptionalism embodied in the War on Terror. The United States flaunts its supposedly liberal openness to homosexuality to secure its identity in contradistinction to sexual oppression in Muslim countries. This oppression serves as an excuse for the United States to "liberate" oppressed women and sexual deviants in these countries, simultaneously papering over sexual inequality in the United States. United States exceptionalism and homonationalism are mutually constitutive, blending discourses of American Manifest Destiny, racist foreign policy, and an urge to document the unknown (embodied in the terrorist) and conquer it through queering its identity, hence rendering it manageable and knowable.<ref name=socialtext/><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Puar|first=Jasbir|title=Rethinking Homonationalism|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/div-classtitlerethinking-homonationalismdiv/A455C4850A8D94BA4DC96D9B8837727C|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|volume=45|issue=2|pages=336–339|doi=10.1017/S002074381300007X|year=2013|s2cid=232253207}}</ref>

Puar's ''Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times'', published in October 2007, describes connections between contemporary "[[gay rights]]" discourse, the integration of gay people into [[consumerism]], the ascendance of "[[Whiteness studies|whiteness]]", and Western imperialism and the [[war on terrorism]]. Puar argues that traditional [[heteronormativity|heteronormative]] ideologies now find accompaniment from "[[Homonormativity|homonormative]]" ideologies replicating the same hierarchical ideals concerning maintenance of dominance in terms related to race, class, gender, and nation-state, a set of ideologies she deems "[[homonationalism]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=Jasbir K. Puar: Terrorist Assemblages : Homonationalism in Queer Times, October 2007 |publisher=OutHistory |url=http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Jasbir_K._Puar:_Terrorist_Assemblages_:_Homonationalism_in_Queer_Times,_October_2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727160211/http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Jasbir_K._Puar%3A_Terrorist_Assemblages_%3A_Homonationalism_in_Queer_Times%2C_October_2007 |date=2007 |archive-date=July 27, 2011 |access-date=February 28, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some reviewers have associated this argument with the "queer Marxism" of [[Kevin Floyd]].<ref>Robert Nichols, Review of Terrorist Assemblages and The Reification of Desire. ''Law, Culture and the Humanities''. April 16, 2010. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17438721100060021002]</ref>

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