Elizabeth A Povinelli

Economies of Abandonment

Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how contemporary governments, particularly in settler nations such as Australia and the United States, deflect social responsibility for the crushing harms experienced by communities living at the margins.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350668
• ISBN-10: 0822350661
• Artikelnr.: 33628846

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality and The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism, both also published by Duke University Press, as well as Labor’s Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. The Child in the Broom Closet 1
1. The Part That Has No Part 47
2. The Brackets of Recognition 75
3. Road Kill: Ethical Substance, Exhaustion, Endurance 101
4. Events of Abandonment 131
5. After Good and Evil, Whither Sacrificial Love? 163
Conclusion. Negative Critique, Positive Sociographies 187
Notes 193
Bibliography 211
Index 225