Tracing Debility and Webbing Resistance to State Violence through Crip Epistemologies

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Philosophy & Religious Studies

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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.

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

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