E A Povinelli

Biographic Data

ID2763
NAMEE A Povinelli
GIVEN NAMESE A
FAMILY NAMEPovinelli
SIGNATUREPOVINELLI E A
ORCID0000-0002-8119-7938
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS395
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX11

  • Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism

    E A PovinelliBOOKBetween Gaia and Ground2021Cited by: 2

    In *Between Gaia and Ground*, Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the concept of the Anthropocene is insufficient to address the current planetary crisis. She proposes four axioms of existence-life, sentience, spirit, and the ancestral-to move beyond the limitations of anthropocentric thinking. Povinelli draws on her ethnographic work with Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory to illustrate how these axioms manifest in their struggles a…

  • Karrabing: An Essay in Keywords

    Open AccessT Lea, E A PovinelliARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2018Cited by: 13References: 6

    Using forms of “improvisational realism,” the north Australian‐based Karrrabing Indigenous Film Collective mimics and plays with strategies of fabulation and faux realism to provoke audiences into new ways of understanding the multileveled worlds Indigenous families inhabit and think about. Successful as their filmography has been, Karrabing works nonetheless enter a culturally saturated visual contract that threatens to tip their productions bac…

  • Fires, Fogs, Winds

    Open AccessE A PovinelliARTICLECultural Anthropology2017Cited by: 12References: 2

    My desire is on fire.Its velocity is exhilarating.Its direction is the wind.I am simultaneously racing in front of and away from it.I am it chasing me with its inhuman legs.I want it to catch me.But I understand the consequences if it does.So I keep running just in front, but not too far away from its encroaching reach.My desire and I are asymptotic; if it becomes mine, then I am on fire.I don't know if this is a universal quality of desire, or i…

  • Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

    E A PovinelliBOOKGeontologies2016

    In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance, Povinelli describes a mode of power she calls geontopower, which operates through the regulation of the distinction between Life and Nonlife and the figures of the Desert, the Animist…

  • Transgender Creeks and the Three Figures of Power in Late Liberalism

    E A PovinelliARTICLEdifferences2015Cited by: 20References: 1

    This essay examines the relevance of the concept of biopower and its four seminal figures (the hysterical woman, the Malthusian couple, the masturbating child, and the perverse adult) to our understanding of current formations of late liberal power. Through the example of a far north Australian creek's attempt to persist in being, this essay argues that new figures and tactics of geontological power are displacing prior biopower ones. It further …

  • Beyond the Names of the People: Disinterring the body politic

    E A PovinelliARTICLECultural Studies2012

    This essay scrutinizes the theoretical foundations of Laclau's notion of rhetoric and the rhetorical. It juxtaposes to Laclau's reliance on Saussurean linguistics, especially its elementary vocabulary of the signifier and signified, a model of rhetoric based on non-linguistic and linguistic modes of rhetoric and interpretation

  • Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism

    E A PovinelliBOOKEconomies of Abandonment2011Cited by: 28

    In Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A. Povinelli explores how late liberal imaginaries of tense, eventfulness, and ethical substance make the global distribution of life and death, hope and harm, and endurance and exhaustion not merely sensible but also just. She presents new ways of conceptualizing formations of power in late liberalism-the shape that liberal governmentality has taken as it has responded to a series of legitimacy crises in th…

  • The Governance of the Prior

    E A PovinelliARTICLEInterventions2011

    This essay asks how critical indigenous theory might intervene in the field of critical theory. What originates here that does not in other disciplinary phrasings and phases and cannot without doing some violence to the tasks indigenous critical theory sets for itself? It begins to answer this question by introducing a form of liberal governance – the governance of the prior – that critical indigenous theory illuminates. And it argues that rather…

  • The Woman on the Other Side of the Wall: Archiving the Otherwise in Postcolonial Digital Archives

    E A PovinelliARTICLEdifferences2011Cited by: 28References: 6

    This article probes a set of problems in the theory and practice of the postcolonial archive that has emerged as the author and her Indigenous and non-Indigenous colleagues have struggled to create a new media archive in rural northwest Australia. This archive does not as yet exist. If it existed as it is currently conceived, it would organize mixed (augmented) reality media on the basis of social media and operate it on smart phones. The smart p…

  • The Part That Has No Part: Enjoyment, Law, and Loss

    E A PovinelliARTICLEGLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay…2011Cited by: 2

    Hinged to a conversation between the author and her friend and colleague (now deceased) in Australia in 1993, this essay examines an ethical and conceptual gap that opens between an analytic that focuses on the disruptive nature of enjoyment in heteronormative orders and the distributional price of exceeding the Law in settler normativities. It pivots on the claim that the general availability of intensified potential, like the general availabili…

  • Forgetting Aborigines

    E A PovinelliARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2009Cited by: 12

  • Beyond Good and Evil, Whither Liberal Sacrificial Love

    E A PovinelliARTICLEPublic Culture2009Cited by: 6

    This essay probes discourses of millennial governance in current late liberal governance and contemporary critical theory. It examines a set of dilemmas for progressive critics when they mobilize discourses of sacrifice and sacrificial love against the millennial imaginary of good and evil. In particular, it asks how discourses of sacrifice and sacrificial love coordinate violence and redemption in such a way that suffering and dying, the mortifi…

  • Without Shame: Australia, the United State and the 'New' Cultural Unilateralism

    E A PovinelliARTICLEAustralian Feminist Law Journal2005Cited by: 2

    (2005). Without Shame: Australia, the United State and the ‘New’ Cultural Unilateralism. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 29-48

  • Technologies of Public Forms: Circulation, Transfiguration, Recognition

    Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, E A PovinelliARTICLEPublic Culture2003Cited by: 84References: 12

  • Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality

    E A PovinelliARTICLEPublic Culture2002Cited by: 55References: 24

    Research Article| January 01 2002 Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality Elizabeth A. Povinelli Elizabeth A. Povinelli Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 215–238. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-14-1-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Elizabeth A. Povinelli; Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality. Public …

  • ConsumingGeist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia

    E A PovinelliARTICLEPublic Culture2000Cited by: 14References: 10

    Research Article| May 01 2000 Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia Elizabeth A. Povinelli Elizabeth A. Povinelli Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 501-528. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-501 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Elizabeth A. Povinelli; Consuming Geist: Popontology and …

  • Thinking Sexuality Transnationally: An Introduction

    E A Povinelli, George ChaunceyARTICLEGLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay…1999Cited by: 95References: 7

    l y , there has been a small but discernible "transnational turn" in lesbian and gay studies and queer theory

  • Settler Modernity and the Quest for an Indigenous Tradition

    E A PovinelliARTICLEPublic Culture1999Cited by: 17

    Research Article| January 01 1999 Settler Modernity and the Quest for an Indigenous Tradition Elizabeth A. Povinelli Elizabeth A. Povinelli Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 19–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-19 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Elizabeth A. Povinelli; Settler Modernity and the Quest for an Indigenous Tr…

  • TheCunning ofRecognition: RealBeing andAboriginalRecognition inSettlerAustralia

    E A PovinelliARTICLEAustralian Feminist Law Journal1998Cited by: 5References: 4

    (1998). The Cunning of Recognition: Real Being and Aboriginal Recognition in Settler Australia. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 11, LEGALISING THE SOUL: NATIVE TITLE RIGHTS AND COLONISATION, pp. 3-27