CANCELED Zoë H. Wool | Grievability, Disability, and the Violence of the Human: Notes on Normativity and the Necropolitics of US

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have had to cancel the event with Professor Wool.

This talk draws from a book project titled The Significance of Others, which explores how investments in heteronormative couplehood, proffered as solutions to the problem' of the disabled veteran in the post-9/11 U.S., are part of a broader regime of significant otherness' that facilitates U.S. war-making and links U.S. military violence overseas to the violence of normativity at home. Here, I draw on ethnographic encounters with grief in US veteran worlds to reflect on what grievability and normative expectations about grief might reveal about the violent exclusions of the category of the human in the long aftermath of war deaths.
 

About the Speaker

Zoë H. Wool's work spans anthropology, disability studies, queer theory, and feminist STS, often tracing the materialities of post-9/11 warmaking in the U.S. Professor Wool is author of the award-winning After War. The weight of life at Walter Reed (Duke UP, 2015). Recipient of both an NS CAREER Award and SSHRC Insight Award, Wool is also director of the TWIG Research Kitchen, a feminist space for experimental work on toxicity, waste, and infrastructure.