Elizabeth A Povinelli: 4 books
The Empire of Love
Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal...
Economies of Abandonment
Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
In Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A. Povinelli explores how late liberal imaginaries of tense, eventfulness, and ethical substance make the global distribution of life and death, hope and harm, and endurance and exhaustion not merely sensible but also just. She presents new ways of conceptualizing...
Geontologies
A Requiem to Late Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance, Povinelli describes a mode of power...
The Cunning of Recognition
Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2002
The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with...