This is a serious, thought-provoking book that challenge both academics and organizers to rethink how we think and relate to "disability issues" across our social movements and struggles. For example, recently I was asked in an interview to reflect on disability justice "issues" in our U.S. movements and found myself pulling Jasbir K. Puar's book off the shelf and referring to a passage.
Specifically, I was asked "How might different subjects—whether differently abled, aged, or particularly vulnerable and precarious—be unevenly affected by the prospect of revolution/political transformation? What work is being done, or needs to be done, to ensure that radical transformation is radically inclusive?" My response began by reframing the question by quoting from the Right To Maim the following passage:
[The Right To Maim] hopes to change the conversation to one that challenges the presumption that the distinction between who is disabled and who is not should fuel a pride movement. I explore if and how this binary effaces the biopolitical production of precarity and (un)livability that runs across these identities. The project, then, is not just one that hopes to contribute to intersectional movement building, though let me insist that this is crucial from the outset. That is to say, Black Lives Matter and the struggle to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine are not only movements “allied” with disability rights, nor are they only distinct disability justice issues. Rather, I am motivated to think of these fierce organizing practices collectively as a disability justice movement itself, as a movement that is demanding an end to so many conditions of precaritization that debilitate many populations. At our current political conjuncture, Black Lives Matter, the Palestinian solidarity movement, the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline to protect sacred grounds and access to water: these are some of the movements that are leading the way to demand livable lives for all. These movements may not represent the most appealing or desired versions of disability pride. But they are movements anchored, in fact, in the lived experiences of debilitation, implicitly contesting the right to maim, and imagining multiple futures where bodily capacities and debilities are embraced rather than weaponized.”
From there, I proceeded to talk about political frameworks that are rooted in decolonization. It would have been so much harder to make these links having not read Puar's book. As such, with full confidence I say this is a must have, read and tell about kind of book. It's written with the requisite intellectual rigor and informed by practical on-the-ground questions and concerns in order to make a timely and meaningful contribution to how we collectively resist, build, and love one another.
- Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: Duke University Press Books (November 3, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0822369184
- ISBN-13: 978-0822369189
- Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.7 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Average Customer Review: 27 customer reviews
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- #249 in Human Rights
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