November 14, 2024 | 4pm at The Hay Barn
The Feminist Studies department is pleased to host Jasbir Puar, Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor, Global Race Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Jasbir Puar's research focuses on how the liberal state, sexuality, and bio-politics bear on our understanding of disability. In her most recent book, The Right to Maim, Prof. Puar uses the concept of "debility"— bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors — to disrupt the category of disability, and shows how debility, disability, and capacity constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations. Interrogating Israel's policies toward Palestine, she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.
