Title
Tracing Debility and Webbing Resistance to State Violence through Crip Epistemologies
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.
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
Comments
Symposium essay from Rethinking Biopolitics: A Forum on Jasbir Puar’s The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability