Elizabeth Povinelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 431401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Povinelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Povinelli |
| SIGNATURE | POVINELLI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 302 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Differential Dispossession and the White Indigenous Counter-Reformation
A history of inheritance in the thinking of Karrabing Film Collective, from Belyuen, the small Indigenous community in Australia. Speaking across from Oceania to Alps, to Central Europe via Australia, and finally on zoom between New York and Vienna, Elizabeth Povinelli and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll discuss relations to Country through the voices of ancestors. This is a polyphony in an everywhen in which everyone is present. Possessive indivi…
Affects After Finitude
This essay approaches current anxieties about climate catastrophe by differentiating between a philosophy of the end and a social theory of settler late liberalism that is situated after the end. In order to suggest such a social theory, I begin with two examples of moods and dispositions cultivated in my birth family and among my Karrabing colleagues. Instead of what moods should be fostered at the end-optimism, hope, panic, anxiety, despair-I a…
Las tres figuras de la geontología
“The Three Figures of Geontology” es el primer capítulo del libro Geontologies: a Requiem to Late Liberalism, publicado por Duke University Press en 2016
Mattering-Forth: Thinking-With Karrabing
Mattering-Forth:Thinking-With Karrabing Elizabeth Povinelli (bio), Daniela Gandorfer (bio), and Zulaikha Ayub (bio) Inventing and grasping concepts are material-discursive practices. Approaching these practices matterphorically means taking account for the fact that representation and the physical world are not two separate preexisting realms but are, rather, entangled. Bifurcational cuts creating dichotomous structures do exist, but are insuffic…
Conversation with the Karrabing Film Collective
This piece is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation with members of the Karrabing Film Collective – Lorraine Lane, Linda Yarrowin, Cecilia Lewis, Sandra Yarrowin, and anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli – interviewed by anthropologists Melinda Hinkson and David Boarder Giles. The Karrabing Film Collective are a community of Indigenous Australians and their whitefella collaborators who make films that analyse and represent their contemporar…
Ancient Sunlight: An Interview with Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is an anthropologist, queer theorist, and filmmaker, whose ground-clearing work has developed a critical theory of late liberalism that would support what she calls ‘an anthropology of the otherwise.’ In her most recent monograph, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism, she probes the politics that undergird the distinction between Life and Nonlife, tracking its pernicious vocation both within contemporary regimes of po…
Pragmáticas íntimas: Linguagem, Subjetividade E Gênero
Este artigo discute entendimentos metapragmáticos e psicanalíticos de linguagem, gênero e desejo. Discute o desafio que cada abordagem disciplinar sobre linguagem, gênero e desejo coloca uma para a outra. Argumenta que uma teoria robusta de linguagem e gênero precisa que a subjetividade seja vista como uma ordem de fenômeno distinta das ordens semântica e pragmática do fenômeno linguístico. O artigo sugere duas propostas modestas como uma maneira…
Obligation, Social Projects and Queer Politics: Elizabeth Povinelli in Conversation With Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman and Silvia Posocco
The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love: 2009 Meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory
Intimate grammars: Anthropological and psychoanalytic accounts of language, gender, and desire
The desert heat was oppressive. The flies were a constant presence on mouth, nostrils, and eyes. It is 1896. Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen are camped just west of Alice Springs, Australia. Gillen has arranged for Arrente men and women and their surrounding Aboriginal neighbors to gather nearby to perform a repertoire of their rituals in exchange for food, tobacco, tea and protection from pastoralists and police. Baldwin Spencer is a zoologist,…
The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality
In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites where liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperialism are manifest, where discourses of self-sovereignty, social constraint,…
The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality
In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites where liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperialism are manifest, where discourses of self-sovereignty, social constraint,…
The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love: 2009 Meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory
Pragmáticas íntimas: Linguagem, Subjetividade E Gênero
Este artigo discute entendimentos metapragmáticos e psicanalíticos de linguagem, gênero e desejo. Discute o desafio que cada abordagem disciplinar sobre linguagem, gênero e desejo coloca uma para a outra. Argumenta que uma teoria robusta de linguagem e gênero precisa que a subjetividade seja vista como uma ordem de fenômeno distinta das ordens semântica e pragmática do fenômeno linguístico. O artigo sugere duas propostas modestas como uma maneira…
Obligation, Social Projects and Queer Politics: Elizabeth Povinelli in Conversation With Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman and Silvia Posocco
Intimate grammars: Anthropological and psychoanalytic accounts of language, gender, and desire
The desert heat was oppressive. The flies were a constant presence on mouth, nostrils, and eyes. It is 1896. Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen are camped just west of Alice Springs, Australia. Gillen has arranged for Arrente men and women and their surrounding Aboriginal neighbors to gather nearby to perform a repertoire of their rituals in exchange for food, tobacco, tea and protection from pastoralists and police. Baldwin Spencer is a zoologist,…
The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality
In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites where liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperialism are manifest, where discourses of self-sovereignty, social constraint,…
The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love: 2009 Meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory
Obligation, Social Projects and Queer Politics: Elizabeth Povinelli in Conversation With Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman and Silvia Posocco
Pragmáticas íntimas: Linguagem, Subjetividade E Gênero
Este artigo discute entendimentos metapragmáticos e psicanalíticos de linguagem, gênero e desejo. Discute o desafio que cada abordagem disciplinar sobre linguagem, gênero e desejo coloca uma para a outra. Argumenta que uma teoria robusta de linguagem e gênero precisa que a subjetividade seja vista como uma ordem de fenômeno distinta das ordens semântica e pragmática do fenômeno linguístico. O artigo sugere duas propostas modestas como uma maneira…
Ancient Sunlight: An Interview with Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is an anthropologist, queer theorist, and filmmaker, whose ground-clearing work has developed a critical theory of late liberalism that would support what she calls ‘an anthropology of the otherwise.’ In her most recent monograph, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism, she probes the politics that undergird the distinction between Life and Nonlife, tracking its pernicious vocation both within contemporary regimes of po…
Conversation with the Karrabing Film Collective
This piece is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation with members of the Karrabing Film Collective – Lorraine Lane, Linda Yarrowin, Cecilia Lewis, Sandra Yarrowin, and anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli – interviewed by anthropologists Melinda Hinkson and David Boarder Giles. The Karrabing Film Collective are a community of Indigenous Australians and their whitefella collaborators who make films that analyse and represent their contemporar…
Mattering-Forth: Thinking-With Karrabing
Mattering-Forth:Thinking-With Karrabing Elizabeth Povinelli (bio), Daniela Gandorfer (bio), and Zulaikha Ayub (bio) Inventing and grasping concepts are material-discursive practices. Approaching these practices matterphorically means taking account for the fact that representation and the physical world are not two separate preexisting realms but are, rather, entangled. Bifurcational cuts creating dichotomous structures do exist, but are insuffic…
Las tres figuras de la geontología
“The Three Figures of Geontology” es el primer capítulo del libro Geontologies: a Requiem to Late Liberalism, publicado por Duke University Press en 2016
Affects After Finitude
This essay approaches current anxieties about climate catastrophe by differentiating between a philosophy of the end and a social theory of settler late liberalism that is situated after the end. In order to suggest such a social theory, I begin with two examples of moods and dispositions cultivated in my birth family and among my Karrabing colleagues. Instead of what moods should be fostered at the end-optimism, hope, panic, anxiety, despair-I a…
Differential Dispossession and the White Indigenous Counter-Reformation
A history of inheritance in the thinking of Karrabing Film Collective, from Belyuen, the small Indigenous community in Australia. Speaking across from Oceania to Alps, to Central Europe via Australia, and finally on zoom between New York and Vienna, Elizabeth Povinelli and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll discuss relations to Country through the voices of ancestors. This is a polyphony in an everywhen in which everyone is present. Possessive indivi…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)