Kara Finance
#ColonialismIsNotOverRead "The Right to Maim: #Debility, #Ability, #Handicap" and how disabilities are used as a social control that must be seen in a global context in terms of #Imperialism and #colonialism.
Book Review: https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1050
Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal
Jasbir K. Puar’s 2017 monograph The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability is a veritable landmark intervention into a number of theoretical fields. Puar is Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and obtained her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. In her analysis of the Israeli state’s policies of maiming, predicated on ideological reference to Palestinian homophobia, Puar extends and recontextualizes themes in affect theory, disability studies, queer theory, trans studies, critical race theory, rights-based discourse and activism, posthumanism, and de/postcolonial theory. The work is published by Duke University Press, 221 pages.
anarchademic"the primary sites of violence under capitalism are not those that lead directly to death. They are instead the quotidian forms that situate capitalist belonging; the reproduction of norms socially as well as legally and administratively, abetted by a “cynical din of knowledge production” that institutionalizes logics of eugenics and austerity."
#disability #debility #healthcommunism #health
