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 sites where
liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperialism
are manifest, where discourses of self-sovereignty, social
constraint, and value converge.
For more than twenty years, Povinelli has traveled to the social
worlds of indigenous men and women living at Belyuen, a small
community in the Northern Territory of Australia. More recently she
has moved across communities of alternative progressive queer
movements in the United States, particularly those who identify as
radical faeries. In this book she traces how liberal binary
concepts of individual freedom and social constraint influence
understandings of intimacy in these two worlds. At the same time,
she describes alternative models of social relations within each
group in order to highlight modes of intimacy that transcend a
reductive choice between freedom and constraint.
Shifting focus away from identities toward the social matrices
out of which identities and divisions emerge, Povinelli offers a
framework for thinking through such issues as what counts as
sexuality and which forms of intimate social relations result in
the distribution of rights, recognition, and resources, and which
do not. In "The Empire of Love" Povinelli calls for, and begins to
formulate, a politics of "thick life," a way of representing social
life nuanced enough to meet the density and variation of actual
social worlds.
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