Tag: Biopolitics

• ‘The Right to Maim’- Puar, Jasbir K.

  In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the…

  The Disability Archives

  18th Nov 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, LGBTQ+, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, P, Philosophy, Transgender

  Academic, ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise, Biopolitics, Disability Politics, Disability Studies, History, Israel, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Queer Politics, Race Politics, Series, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, Transgender

• ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’- Skloot, Rebecca

  Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her enslaved ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though…

  The Disability Archives

  22nd Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Autobiography, Book Type, Cancer, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Historical, Journalism, Misc, Non-Fiction, S, Terminal Illness

  American History, Biographical, Biopolitics, Black Politics, Body Politics, Cancer, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability History, Disability Studies, Healthcare, Henrietta Lacks, Journalism, Medical Consent, Medical Justice, Non-Fiction, POC, Racialised Medical Care, Read By Archivist, Science, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Terminal Illness, USA