Lisa Stevenson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 86507 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lisa Stevenson |
| NOMBRES | Lisa |
| APELLIDO | Stevenson |
| FIRMA | STEVENSON L |
| AFILIACIONES | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0705-9307 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Looking Away
This essay turns to Roland Barthes's concept of the punctum and John Berger's writing on portraiture to describe the care involved in both anthropological encounters and ethnographic writing. It addresses how images-whether, photographic, painted, or written-may come to be seen as "just." The essay considers the possibility that it might be necessary to look away from our interlocutors, or the images we have of them, in order to be able to sense,…
What There is to Fear
What there is to fear', is how a taxi driver put it. That is, in different worlds 'what there is to fear' shifts. It's a dark definition of a world - a universe of shared fears. But in Ecuador's Amazon, snakes are one thing there is to fear, while in metropolitan Quito, among Colombian forced migrants, other Colombians are what there is to fear: paramilitaries, decommissioned guerillas or extortionists who cross the border to exact a price - in b…
Life Beside Itself
In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the imag…
Sounding Death, Saying Something
This essay considers what it means to speak into an absence. In particular, the author thinks about a series of recordings from the 1960s in which Inuit in Arctic Canada send messages to their relatives in tuberculosis sanatoria in southern Canada. The dislocation such separation caused was severe. Families who had never been apart were separated for years with little means of communication. Some Inuit died in the sanatoria. Family members had no…
Leviathan
L eviathan , an experimental ethnographic film by C astaing‐ T aylor and P aravel, is groundbreaking. By decoupling voice from any stable narrative perspective, it allows the viewer to be made over by a world beyond the human. It is, we argue, a form of dreaming—a modality of attention that can open us to the beings with whom we share this fragile planet. As such, L eviathan gestures to a sort of ontological poetics and politics for the so‐called…
The psychic life of biopolitics
What does it mean for Inuit to cooperate with the (disavowed) desires that emerge in a colonial bureaucracy dedicated to improving Inuit lives? In this article, I consider the psychic life of biopolitics in the context of welfare colonialism in the Canadian Arctic. I suggest that the colonial desire that Inuit cooperate in their own survival is haunted by other desires the colonist can never name and that such unspeakable desires are also at work…
Real-World Knowledge through Real-World Maps
The psychic life of biopolitics
What does it mean for Inuit to cooperate with the (disavowed) desires that emerge in a colonial bureaucracy dedicated to improving Inuit lives? In this article, I consider the psychic life of biopolitics in the context of welfare colonialism in the Canadian Arctic. I suggest that the colonial desire that Inuit cooperate in their own survival is haunted by other desires the colonist can never name and that such unspeakable desires are also at work…
Looking Away
This essay turns to Roland Barthes's concept of the punctum and John Berger's writing on portraiture to describe the care involved in both anthropological encounters and ethnographic writing. It addresses how images-whether, photographic, painted, or written-may come to be seen as "just." The essay considers the possibility that it might be necessary to look away from our interlocutors, or the images we have of them, in order to be able to sense,…
Sounding Death, Saying Something
This essay considers what it means to speak into an absence. In particular, the author thinks about a series of recordings from the 1960s in which Inuit in Arctic Canada send messages to their relatives in tuberculosis sanatoria in southern Canada. The dislocation such separation caused was severe. Families who had never been apart were separated for years with little means of communication. Some Inuit died in the sanatoria. Family members had no…
What There is to Fear
What there is to fear', is how a taxi driver put it. That is, in different worlds 'what there is to fear' shifts. It's a dark definition of a world - a universe of shared fears. But in Ecuador's Amazon, snakes are one thing there is to fear, while in metropolitan Quito, among Colombian forced migrants, other Colombians are what there is to fear: paramilitaries, decommissioned guerillas or extortionists who cross the border to exact a price - in b…
Leviathan
L eviathan , an experimental ethnographic film by C astaing‐ T aylor and P aravel, is groundbreaking. By decoupling voice from any stable narrative perspective, it allows the viewer to be made over by a world beyond the human. It is, we argue, a form of dreaming—a modality of attention that can open us to the beings with whom we share this fragile planet. As such, L eviathan gestures to a sort of ontological poetics and politics for the so‐called…
Real-World Knowledge through Real-World Maps
The psychic life of biopolitics
What does it mean for Inuit to cooperate with the (disavowed) desires that emerge in a colonial bureaucracy dedicated to improving Inuit lives? In this article, I consider the psychic life of biopolitics in the context of welfare colonialism in the Canadian Arctic. I suggest that the colonial desire that Inuit cooperate in their own survival is haunted by other desires the colonist can never name and that such unspeakable desires are also at work…
Leviathan
L eviathan , an experimental ethnographic film by C astaing‐ T aylor and P aravel, is groundbreaking. By decoupling voice from any stable narrative perspective, it allows the viewer to be made over by a world beyond the human. It is, we argue, a form of dreaming—a modality of attention that can open us to the beings with whom we share this fragile planet. As such, L eviathan gestures to a sort of ontological poetics and politics for the so‐called…
Sounding Death, Saying Something
This essay considers what it means to speak into an absence. In particular, the author thinks about a series of recordings from the 1960s in which Inuit in Arctic Canada send messages to their relatives in tuberculosis sanatoria in southern Canada. The dislocation such separation caused was severe. Families who had never been apart were separated for years with little means of communication. Some Inuit died in the sanatoria. Family members had no…
Life Beside Itself
In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the imag…
Looking Away
This essay turns to Roland Barthes's concept of the punctum and John Berger's writing on portraiture to describe the care involved in both anthropological encounters and ethnographic writing. It addresses how images-whether, photographic, painted, or written-may come to be seen as "just." The essay considers the possibility that it might be necessary to look away from our interlocutors, or the images we have of them, in order to be able to sense,…
What There is to Fear
What there is to fear', is how a taxi driver put it. That is, in different worlds 'what there is to fear' shifts. It's a dark definition of a world - a universe of shared fears. But in Ecuador's Amazon, snakes are one thing there is to fear, while in metropolitan Quito, among Colombian forced migrants, other Colombians are what there is to fear: paramilitaries, decommissioned guerillas or extortionists who cross the border to exact a price - in b…
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