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biopolitics seminar – syllabus

1 – 16.10.2023 10–12 – reading time // self-study

Read Puar, Jasbir K. 2017. The Right to Maim. Durham. Duke University Press. Preface and introduction. ix–32.

NOTE: Use this day/week to read the information here on the course, assigments, participation, etc. and the first part of Puar’s text. There will be no introductory session; we will jump right in on Monday 23!

2 – 23.10.2023 10–12 discussion – preface & introduction

3 – 30.10.2023 10–12 reading time // self-study

Read Puar, Jasbir K. 2017. The Right to Maim. Durham. Duke University Press. Chapter 1 “Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled”. 33–62.

4 – 6.11.2023 10–12 discussion – trans & disability

5 – 13.11.2023 10–12 reading time // self-study

Read Puar, Jasbir K. 2017. The Right to Maim. Durham. Duke University Press. Chapter 2 “Crip Nationalism: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism”. 63–94.

6 – 20.11.2023 10–12 discussion – disability politics

7– 27.11.2023 10–12 reading time // self-study

Read Puar, Jasbir K. 2017. The Right to Maim. Durham. Duke University Press. Chapter 3 “Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Palestine/Israel”. 95–126.

8– 4.12.2023 10–12 discussion – queer politics Israel/Palestine

Task in preparation of 11.12.: Listen to the podcast episode on “The Right to Maim”with Bassam Sidiki on https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-right-to-maim and comment on it in the blog.

9 – 11.12.2023 10–12 discussion – references to the right to maim

10 – 18.12.2023 10–12 reading time // self-study

Read Puar, Jasbir K. 2017. The Right to Maim. Durham. Duke University Press. Chapter 4 “”Will Not Let Die”: Debilitation and Inhuman Biopolitics in Palestine”. 127–154.

11 – 8.1.2024 10–12 discussion – biopolitics in Palestine

12 – 15.1.2024 10–12 reading time // self-study

Read Mbembe, Achille. 2019. Necropolitics. Durham. Duke University Press. Chapter to be announced.

13 – 22.1.2024 10–12 discussion – necropolitics

Task in preperation of 5.2.: Read Puar, Jasbir K. 2017. The Right to Maim. Durham. Duke University Press. Postscript. 155-162.

14 – 5.2.2024 10–12 – course wrap-up

15 – 12.2.2024 10–12 – individual follow-up

Task: Publish your final blog comment until 19.2.2024 6 PM.


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Victoria Mummelthei (8. August 2023). biopolitics seminar – syllabus. Keine Disziplin – No Discipline. Abgerufen am 21. April 2026 von https://doi.org/10.58079/13jnd


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