UWP Lecturers Jasbir Puar talk April 19, 2011

[Susan Brown]

	 JASBIR PUARAssociate Professor of Women's Studies at Rutgers
University. The Cost of Getting Better: Suicide, Switchpoints,
Sensations.April 19, 20113:30-5:00pmINTS 1113"The Cost of Getting Better"
situates public discourse about bullying and queer suicide (e.g. the "It
Gets Better" campaign) within the broader contexts of neoliberal demands on
bodily capacity and debility. Jasbir Puar is the author of Terrorist
Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007),
which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for
Asian American Studies. Professor Puar has authored numerous articles that
appear in Gender, Place, and Culture; Social Text; Radical History Review;
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; and Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society. Her edited volumes include a special issue of GLQ
entitled "Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization" and she co-edited a
volume of Society and Space entitled "Sexuality and Space".

 	
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