Terrorist assemblages: homonationalism in queer times

Abstract

Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism, and examines how liberal politics serve to incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state. Introduction : homonationalism and biopolitics -- The sexuality of terrorism -- Abu Ghraib and U.S. sexual exceptionalism -- Intimate control, infinite detention : rereading the Lawrence case -- "The turban is not a hat" : queer diaspora and practices of profiling -- Conclusion : queer times, terrorist assemblages.