Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies) by Jasbir K Puar

Notes in Progress!

“an invitation to deeper exploration of these connections among sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity in relation to the tactics, strategies, and logistics of war machines. This project critiques the fostering, managing, and valorization of life and all that sustains it, describing the mechanisms by which queerness as a process of racialization informs the very distinctions between life and death, wealth and poverty, health and ilness, fertility and morbidity, security and insecurity, living and dying.” (xi)

keywords: queer theory, nationalism, terrorism, Islam, Iran, American exceptionalism