Jasbir Kaur Puar

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Professor Puar is a core faculty member in the department of Women's & Gender Studies, Rutgers University, and a graduate faculty member in the department of Geography at Rutgers. Professor Puar's research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and diaspora studies; queer theory; South Asian cultural studies; and tourism studies.

Publications

“Homonormativity and its Others,” in Gender, Place, and Culture (Winter 2005),

“Queer Times, Queer Assemblages,” in Social Text 84-85 vol. 23 nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2005),

“On Torture: Abu Ghraib,” Radical History Review (Fall 2005),

“The Remaking of a Model Minority: Perverse Projectiles under the Specter of (Counter)Terrorism,” with Amit Rai, in Social Text 80 vol. 22 no. 3 (Fall 2004)

"Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots," with Amit Rai, in Social Text 72 vol. 20 no. 3 (Fall 2002)

“A Transnational Feminist Critique of Queer Tourism,” in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography vol. 34 no. 5 (November 2002);

“Circuits of Queer Mobility: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization,” in GLQ vol. 8 nos. 1-2 (2001);

"Global Circuits: Transnational Sexualities in Trinidad," in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 26 no. 4 (Summer 2001);

"Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets" in The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness edited by Matt Wray et al (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001);

Edited

Special issue of GLQ titled, "Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization" vol. 8 nos. 1-2 (2002).

Professor Puar is currently working on a book manuscript on queer biopolitics, race and sexuality, and discourses of counter/terrorism.