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Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar (Unlocked)

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Is There a Binary Between Disability and the Occupation?

In the work that I've done in Palestine in the refugee camps around, disability is extremely limited. So it becomes easier to produce a binary between,. you know, the disabled, non-disabled binary than it does to actually address what kinds of social suffering are happening because of the occupation. Disability itself is already anchored and as a category in whiteness, in imperial formations, in... In the official state, recognitions and citizenship. And so these are some of the things I was trying to get at in the book, that this is a kind of political and epistemological problem going on here.

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