Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar

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4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 135 minutes

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on November 21st 2022. We are re-releasing it today, alongside a new transcript of the conversation, because in the past few weeks we have found Jasbir’s work tremendously useful in understanding the enormity of what’s happening in Gaza. Episode description: Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about the violent global effects of settler colonialism and how they shape our understanding of what we mean by “disability” and “debility.” We discuss how colonial occupation itself can be understood through a theory of debility, colonial constructions of who is labeled a "terrorist," and some of the most important insights from Jasbir's 2017 book The Right to Maim. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/jasbir-puar-body-politics Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	For me, it was also important to think politically about this, which is like, what can
0:05.2	debility galvanize if we all understand ourselves in some relation to debility?
0:11.9	And it's not contingent upon a self-other binarization of disabled, non-disabled.
0:18.9	There's no pure debility and there's no pure capacity, right?
0:22.6	That we are, as bodies, kind of moving in and out of these realms all the time. Welcome to the Death Panel.
0:38.3	Patrons, thank you so much for your support of the Welcome to the Death Panel.
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1:06.7	pick up a copy of Health Communism at your local bookstore,
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1:11.7	and follow us at death panel underscore so today jules and i have a really special interview for you
1:18.4	jesbier poir author of the truly path-breaking books terrorist assemblages homo nationalism in queer times
1:24.8	originally published in 2007 and the right to maim,
1:29.0	debility, capacity, disability, also published by Duke University Press in 2017.
1:35.2	Now, I think people often overuse the word pathbreaking, like a kind of buzzword when you want
1:40.4	to say that something is really important, but Jisbeer's work is truly path-breaking.
1:45.3	This is not an exaggeration, and I'm not just saying this to be nice. I am very hardcore,
1:50.0	serious about this. And I'm honored to have her here today to join us in discussion so that the three
1:55.5	of us can revisit her book, The Right to Mame. Jizbeer, welcome to the death panel. It's so
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