On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise

Affect, Tourism, Belize
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-646-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Reihe: New Directions in Anthropology

There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Little, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing Stories of Make-Belize

Chapter 1. “For the Time is at Hand”: Beast-Time Somet’ings

Chapter 2. Impossible Tropics

Chapter 3. Richie’s Tourists

Chapter 4. Nowhere Paradise

Chapter 5. Belize Ephemera

Chapter 6. Belize Blues

Chapter 7. Parca’s Picks

Epilogue: Belize Fabulations

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Little, Kenneth
Kenneth Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University in Toronto. His research focuses on the analysis of society as spectacle, the critical turn in anthropology to the study of affect, social creativity, experiments in ethnographic writing and performativity.