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In Between Gaia and Ground Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes the
climatic, environmental, viral, and social catastrophe present as
an ancestral catastrophe through which that Indigenous and
colonized peoples have been suffering for centuries. In this way,
the violence and philosophies the West relies on now threaten the
West itself. Engaging with the work of Glissant, Deleuze and
Guattari, Cesaire, and Arendt, Povinelli highlights four axioms of
existence-the entanglement of existence, the unequal distribution
of power, the collapse of the event as essential to political
thought, and the legacies of racial and colonial histories. She
traces these axioms' inspiration in anticolonial struggles against
the dispossession and extraction that have ruined the lived
conditions for many on the planet. By examining the dynamic and
unfolding forms of late liberal violence, Povinelli attends to a
vital set of questions about changing environmental conditions, the
legacies of violence, and the limits of inherited Western social
theory. Between Gaia and Ground also includes a glossary of the
keywords and concepts that Povinelli has developed throughout her
work.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through
blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto
Adige—the region where family's ancestral alpine village is
found. Far more than a map hanging above the family television, the
image featured colors and lines that held in place the memories and
values fueling the Povinelli family's fraught relationships with
the village and with each other. In her graphic memoir The
Inheritance, Povinelli explores the events, traumas, and powers
that divide and define our individual and collective pasts and
futures. Weaving together stories of her grandparents' flight from
their village in the early twentieth century to the fortunes of
their knife-grinding business in Buffalo, New York, and her own
Catholic childhood in a shrinking Louisiana woodlands of the 1960s
and 1970s, Povinelli describes the serial patterns of violence,
dislocation, racism and structural inequality that have shaped not
only her life but the American story. Plumbing the messy
relationships among nationality, ethnicity, kinship, religion, and
belonging, The Inheritance takes us into the gulf between the facts
of history and the stories we tell ourselves to survive and justify
them.
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 she calls
geontopower, which operates through the regulation of the
distinction between Life and Nonlife and the figures of the Desert,
the Animist, and the Virus. Geontologies examines this formation of
power from the perspective of Indigenous Australian maneuvers
against the settler state. And it probes how our contemporary
critical languages-anthropogenic climate change, plasticity, new
materialism, antinormativity-often unwittingly transform their
struggles against geontopower into a deeper entwinement within it.
A woman who became a river, a snakelike entity who spawns the fog,
plesiosaurus fossils and vast networks of rock weirs: in asking how
these different forms of existence refuse incorporation into the
vocabularies of Western theory Povinelli provides a revelatory new
way to understand a form of power long self-evident in certain
regimes of settler late liberalism but now becoming visible much
further beyond.
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In Between Gaia and Ground Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes the
climatic, environmental, viral, and social catastrophe present as
an ancestral catastrophe through which that Indigenous and
colonized peoples have been suffering for centuries. In this way,
the violence and philosophies the West relies on now threaten the
West itself. Engaging with the work of Glissant, Deleuze and
Guattari, Cesaire, and Arendt, Povinelli highlights four axioms of
existence-the entanglement of existence, the unequal distribution
of power, the collapse of the event as essential to political
thought, and the legacies of racial and colonial histories. She
traces these axioms' inspiration in anticolonial struggles against
the dispossession and extraction that have ruined the lived
conditions for many on the planet. By examining the dynamic and
unfolding forms of late liberal violence, Povinelli attends to a
vital set of questions about changing environmental conditions, the
legacies of violence, and the limits of inherited Western social
theory. Between Gaia and Ground also includes a glossary of the
keywords and concepts that Povinelli has developed throughout her
work.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through
blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto
Adige—the region where family's ancestral alpine village is
found. Far more than a map hanging above the family television, the
image featured colors and lines that held in place the memories and
values fueling the Povinelli family's fraught relationships with
the village and with each other. In her graphic memoir The
Inheritance, Povinelli explores the events, traumas, and powers
that divide and define our individual and collective pasts and
futures. Weaving together stories of her grandparents' flight from
their village in the early twentieth century to the fortunes of
their knife-grinding business in Buffalo, New York, and her own
Catholic childhood in a shrinking Louisiana woodlands of the 1960s
and 1970s, Povinelli describes the serial patterns of violence,
dislocation, racism and structural inequality that have shaped not
only her life but the American story. Plumbing the messy
relationships among nationality, ethnicity, kinship, religion, and
belonging, The Inheritance takes us into the gulf between the facts
of history and the stories we tell ourselves to survive and justify
them.
How does an Aboriginal community see itself, its work, and its
place on the land? Elizabeth Povinelli goes to the Belyuen
community of northern Australia to show how it draws from deep
connections between labor, language, and the landscape. Her
findings challenge Western notions of "productive labor" and
longstanding ideas about the role of culture in subsistence
economies.
In "Labor's Lot," Povinelli shows how everyday activities shape
Aboriginal identity and provide cultural meaning. She focuses on
the Belyuen women's interactions with the countryside and on
Belyuen conflicts with the Australian government over control of
local land. Her analysis raises serious questions about the
validity of Western theories about labor and culture and their
impact on Aboriginal society.
Povinelli's focus on women's activities provides an important
counterpoint to recent works centering on male roles in
hunter-gatherer societies. Her unique "cultural economy" approach
overcomes the dichotomy between the two standard approaches to
these studies. "Labor's Lot" will engage anyone interested in
indigenous peoples or in the relationship between culture and
economy in contemporary social practice.
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 formations of power
in late liberalism—the shape that liberal governmentality has
taken as it has responded to a series of legitimacy crises in the
wake of anticolonial and new social movements and, more recently,
the “clash of civilizations” after September 11. Based on
longstanding ethnographic work in Australia and the United States,
as well as critical readings of legal, academic, and activist
texts, Povinelli examines how alternative social worlds and
projects generate new possibilities of life in the context of
ordinary and extraordinary acts of neglect and surveillance. She
focuses particularly on social projects that have not yet achieved
a concrete existence but persist at the threshold of possible
existence. By addressing the question of the endurance, let alone
the survival, of alternative forms of life, Povinelli opens new
ethical and political questions.
"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 their colonizers
but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of
authentic traditional culture.
Povinelli draws on seventeen years of ethnographic research among
northwest coast indigenous people and her own experience
participating in land claims, as well as on public records, legal
debates, and anthropological archives to examine how multicultural
forms of recognition work to reinforce liberal regimes rather than
to open them up to a true cultural democracy. "The Cunning of
Recognition" argues that the inequity of liberal forms of
multiculturalism arises not from its weak ethical commitment to
difference but from its strongest vision of a new national
cohesion. In the end, Australia is revealed as an exemplary site
for studying the social effects of the liberal multicultural
imaginary: much earlier than the United States and in response to
very different geopolitical conditions, Australian nationalism
renounced the ideal of a unitary European tradition and embraced
cultural and social diversity.
While addressing larger theoretical debates in critical
anthropology, political theory, cultural studies, and liberal
theory, "The Cunning of Recognition" demonstrates that the impact
of the globalization of liberal forms of government can only be
truly understood by examining its concrete--and not just
philosophical--effects on the world.
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.
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 she calls
geontopower, which operates through the regulation of the
distinction between Life and Nonlife and the figures of the Desert,
the Animist, and the Virus. Geontologies examines this formation of
power from the perspective of Indigenous Australian maneuvers
against the settler state. And it probes how our contemporary
critical languages-anthropogenic climate change, plasticity, new
materialism, antinormativity-often unwittingly transform their
struggles against geontopower into a deeper entwinement within it.
A woman who became a river, a snakelike entity who spawns the fog,
plesiosaurus fossils and vast networks of rock weirs: in asking how
these different forms of existence refuse incorporation into the
vocabularies of Western theory Povinelli provides a revelatory new
way to understand a form of power long self-evident in certain
regimes of settler late liberalism but now becoming visible much
further beyond.
How does an Aboriginal community see itself, its work, and its
place on the land? Elizabeth Povinelli goes to the Belyuen
community of northern Australia to show how it draws from deep
connections between labor, language, and the landscape. Her
findings challenge Western notions of "productive labor" and
longstanding ideas about the role of culture in subsistence
economies.
In "Labor's Lot," Povinelli shows how everyday activities shape
Aboriginal identity and provide cultural meaning. She focuses on
the Belyuen women's interactions with the countryside and on
Belyuen conflicts with the Australian government over control of
local land. Her analysis raises serious questions about the
validity of Western theories about labor and culture and their
impact on Aboriginal society.
Povinelli's focus on women's activities provides an important
counterpoint to recent works centering on male roles in
hunter-gatherer societies. Her unique "cultural economy" approach
overcomes the dichotomy between the two standard approaches to
these studies. "Labor's Lot" will engage anyone interested in
indigenous peoples or in the relationship between culture and
economy in contemporary social practice.
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