In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on
the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our
understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of
theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of
"debility"-bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by
economic and political factors-to disrupt the category of
disability. She shows how debility, disability, and 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 and enable the mass
debilitation of Palestinian bodies. Tracing disability's
interaction with debility and capacity, Puar offers a brilliant
rethinking of Foucauldian biopolitics while showing how disability
functions at the intersection of imperialism and racialized
capital.
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