Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Geontologies
- ISBN 13:
- 9780822362333
- author:
- Elizabeth A. Povinelli
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 15.2 x 1.3 x 22.9 cm
- Genre:
- Society, Politics & Philosophy, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Elizabeth A. Povinelli,Geontologies,Duke University Press Books,0822362333,Sociology & Anthropology: Professional,Social Science,Archaeology / Anthropology,Sociology,Ethnology - Philosoph
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli offers a bold retheorization of power, challenging traditional understandings of governance and control. Povinelli proposes a new concept of geontopower, which operates through the regulation of life and non-life distinctions, and examines its impact on contemporary critical languages such as anthropogenic climate change and plasticity. This book probes how Indigenous Australian maneuvers against settler states can reveal new insights into power formations, particularly in relation to the entwinement of struggles against geontopower. By exploring these complex relationships, Povinelli provides a fresh perspective on a form of power that has long been self-evident in certain regimes. Through its analysis, Geontologies sheds light on how our contemporary critical languages often unwittingly transform their struggles into a deeper entwinement within the very systems they seek to challenge.