Cartographies of Friendship, Desire, and Home; Notes on surviving neoliberal security regimes

Authors

  • Debanuj DasGupta Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies The Ohio State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v34i4.3994

Keywords:

HIV, neoliberalism, queer, migrant, India, NYC

Abstract

In this auto-ethnographic essay I shed light upon processes of racialiazation and sexualization which work to construct the figure of the disabled, diseased, alien. The paper argues disability based immigration policies, along with neoliberal notions of productivity and enterprise operate as technologies of power, excluding queer HiV positive migrant subjects from the gates of the US nation-state. I shed light upon HIV based immigration policies, disability and sexuality rights activism, pre and post 9/11 US national security practices by retracing lived experiences of mine from Kolkata, India and post 9/11 New York City. The narrative journeys to spaces such as HIV clinics, S&M chambers, and hospital rooms in hopes of understanding collective claims to life being made by those occupying the interstitial shadow spaces between nation-states, perverse/ normal, ability/disability, and ultimately life/death.

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Published

2014-12-06

How to Cite

DasGupta, D. (2014). Cartographies of Friendship, Desire, and Home; Notes on surviving neoliberal security regimes. Disability Studies Quarterly, 34(4). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v34i4.3994

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Humanities, Arts, and Media