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.

Jasbir K. Puar
Born1967 (age 5657)
Alma materRutgers University (BA)
University of York (MA)
University of California (PhD)
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
San Francisco State University
New York University
Rutgers University
Thesis"Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad: Modern Bodies, National Queers" (1999)
Doctoral advisorNorma Alarcón
Main interests
  • Queer theory
  • race studies
Notable ideas
Homonationalism
Websitewww.jasbirkpuar.com
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