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Jasbir K. Puar continues her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, & biopolitics to theorize the production of disability, using Israel's occupation of Palestine as an example of how settler colonial states rely on liberal frameworks of disability to maintain control of bodies & populations.In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, & biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical & methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury & social exclusion brought on by economic & political factors—to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how debility, disability, & capacity together constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations. Puar's analysis culminates in an interrogation of Israel's policies toward Palestine, in which she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury. Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure & enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian

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Author

Puar, Jasbir K.

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822368922

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Social Science, Political Science

Rating

4.2 / 5 (64 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14