Between Gaia and Ground

Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism

Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1457-7 (ISBN)

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In Between Gaia and Ground Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes the climatic, environmental, viral, and social catastrophe present as an ancestral catastrophe through which that Indigenous and colonized peoples have been suffering for centuries. In this way, the violence and philosophies the West relies on now threaten the West itself. Engaging with the work of Glissant, Deleuze and Guattari, CÉsaire, and Arendt, Povinelli highlights four axioms of existence-the entanglement of existence, the unequal distribution of power, the collapse of the event as essential to political thought, and the legacies of racial and colonial histories. She traces these axioms' inspiration in anticolonial struggles against the dispossession and extraction that have ruined the lived conditions for many on the planet. By examining the dynamic and unfolding forms of late liberal violence, Povinelli attends to a vital set of questions about changing environmental conditions, the legacies of violence, and the limits of inherited Western social theory. Between Gaia and Ground also includes a glossary of the keywords and concepts that Povinelli has developed throughout her work.

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University and founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective. Her most recent book is The Inheritance, also published by Duke University Press.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Section I
1. The Four Axioms of Existence 15
2. Toxic Late Liberalism 36
Section II
3. Atomic Ends: The Whole Earth and the Conquered Earth 63
4. Toxic Ends: The Biosphere and the Colonial Sphere 86
5. Conceptual Ends: Solidarity and Stubbornness 112
Postscript 131
Glossary 134
Notes 143
Bibliography 157
Index 173

Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	5 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-1457-1 / 1478014571
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1457-7 / 9781478014577
Zustand	Neuware