Povinelli Economies of Abandonment

Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9457-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Povinelli, Elizabeth A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.