Jasbir Puar
Jasbir K. Puar (born 1967) is an American professor at Rutgers University. Her most recent book is The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017). Puar is the author of award-winning Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007). She has written on South Asian diasporic cultural production in the United States, United Kingdom and Trinidad, LGBT tourism, terrorism studies, surveillance studies, biopolitics and necropolitics, disability and debilitation, theories of intersectionality, affect, and assemblage; animal studies and posthumanism, homonationalism, pinkwashing, and the Palestinian territories.
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Alma mater | Rutgers University (BA) University of York (MA) University of California (PhD) |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley San Francisco State University New York University Rutgers University |
Thesis | "Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad: Modern Bodies, National Queers" (1999) |
Doctoral advisor | Norma Alarcón |
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Notable ideas | Homonationalism |
Website | www |
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