"Tracing Debility and Webbing Resistance to State Violence through Crip" by Heike Peckruhn

Public Scholarship

Title

Tracing Debility and Webbing Resistance to State Violence through Crip Epistemologies

Authors

Heike Peckruhn, Daemen UniversityFollow

Department

Philosophy & Religious Studies

Document Type

Article

Publication Source

Political Theology Network

Publication Date

2021-06-04

Abstract

Using Puar’s line of analysis, we can trace how debilitating trauma can become a tool of the nation-state that creates racialized “mad people”: unruly, distressed, unbecoming, disposable in the eyes of the nation-state, yet necessary in their precarity and correct-ability.

Comments

Symposium essay from Rethinking Biopolitics: A Forum on Jasbir Puar’s The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability

Recommended Citation

Peckruhn, Heike, "Tracing Debility and Webbing Resistance to State Violence through Crip Epistemologies" (2021). Public Scholarship. 30.
https://digitalcommons.daemen.edu/public_scholarship/30

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