Jasbir Puar

Jasbir K. Puar is a US-based queer theorist, presently an associate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.[1] Puar is author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Puar is a proponent of divestment from Israel and a board member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.[2]

Academic career

Puar 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.[3]

Despite her advocacy for gay rights, Puar criticizes the advance of gay rights in Israel on the grounds that it is allegedly intended to cover up misconduct concerning Palestinians. She accuses Israel of harvesting Palestinian organs, conducting experiments on Palestinians, and stunting the growth of Palestinians. As a result, her critics have accused her of engaging in unfounded anti-Semitic blood libels. [4]

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times

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", and Western imperialism and the war on terrorism. Puar argues that traditional heteronormative ideologies now find accompaniment from "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".[5]

Writings by Puar have also appeared in The Guardian.[6]

Theoretical applications

Homonationalist Futurism: “Terrorism” and (Other) Queer Resistance to Empire

Heike Schotten utilizes Puar's theoretical framework and conflates it with the theories of Lee Edelman to produce a model for thinking about racialized identities and resistance to the "sexual contures" of US Empire. Schotten posits that, when combined, Edelman and Puar's work serves as a crucial resource for "theorizing 'terrorism' and understanding it as an act of political resistance."[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/143-jasbir-puar
  2. ↑ "Advisory Board". US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
  3. ↑ http://asci.researchhub.ssrc.org/jasbir-k-puar/person_view
  4. ↑ http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/02/vassar-faculty-sponsored-anti-israel-event-erupts-in-controversy/
  5. ↑ http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Jasbir_K._Puar:_Terrorist_Assemblages_:_Homonationalism_in_Queer_Times,_October_2007
  6. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jasbir-puar
  7. ↑ Schotten, Heike (March 2015). "Homonationalist Futurism: "Terrorism" and (Other) Queer Resistance to Empire". New Political Science. doi:10.1080/07393148.2014.957910. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
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