The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822368927 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. She shows how debility—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—along with disability and capacity constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the conc
Puar's latest book offers us a new vocabulary for understanding disability, debility, and capacity, three terms that anchor a sharp and provocative analysis of biopolitics of neoliberalism, police power, and militarization. Puar references a wide range of scholarly and activist resources to show how maiming becomes a deliberate goal in the continuing war on Palestine, and how the powers of whiteness deflect from the demographics of disability and ability. So too does opting out of discourse altogether. "Jasbir K. Lastl