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Elizabeth A. Povinelli
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Columbia University
Anthropology |
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Biography
Her writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism. This critical task is grounded in theories of the translation, transfiguration and the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities within settler liberalisms. Her first two books focused on impasses within liberal systems of law and value as they meet local Australian indigenous worlds, and the effect of these impasses on the development of legal and public culture in Australia. Her most recent book examines how a set of ethical and normative claims about the governace of lowve, sociality, and the body circulate in liberal settler colonies in such a way that life and death, rights and recognition, goods and resources are unevenly distributed there. She diverges from most contemporary approaches to sexuality, gender and the legacy of European colonialism in so far as she brackets sexuality in the first moment and, instead, look at how the distinction between individual freedom and social bondage subtends and animates most theories and practices of sexuality in postcolonial liberalisms.
Representative Publications:
2006. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Geneology, and Carnality. A Public Planet Book. Duke University Press.
2005. Flight from Freedom. In After PostColonial Studies and Beyond. Suvir Kaul et al, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2003. Technologies of Public Form: Circulation, Transfiguration, Recognition. In Technologies of Public Persuasion, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Elizabeth A. Povinelli, eds. 15(3): 385-397.
2002. The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism. Durham: Duke University Press.
2001. Radical Worlds: The Anthropology of Incommensurability and Inconceivability. The Annual Review of Anthropology. Volume 30: 319-34.
1999. Thinking Sexuality Transnationally. Special Issue glq 5(4) Edited with George Chauncey, 5(4).
1994. Labor's Lot: The Power, History and Culture of Aboriginal Action. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. | |
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