Elizabeth Povinelli

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University where she has also been the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Culture. [ [http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/author/povinellie/ Social Science Research Council Author Page] ] She is the author of numerous books and essays as well as a former editor of the academic journal "Public Culture".

Povinelli’s work has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism. This critical task is grounded in theories of the translation, transfiguration and the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities within settler liberalisms. Her first two books focused on impasses within liberal systems of law and value as they meet local Australian indigenous worlds, and the effect of these impasses on the development of legal and public culture in Australia. Her most recent book, "The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Geneology, and Carnality", examines how a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body circulate in liberal settler colonies in such a way that life and death, rights and recognition, goods and resources are unevenly distributed there.

Povinelli appeared in the documentary film "Apparition of the Eternal Church" (2006), directed by Paul Festa, about the French composer Olivier Messiaen's eponymous organ work. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810758/ Internet Movie Database] ]

elected Bibliography

*"The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Geneology, and Carnality". A Public Planet Book. Duke University Press, 2006.

*"Flight from Freedom. In After PostColonial Studies and Beyond". Suvir Kaul et al, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.

*"Technologies of Public Form: Circulation, Transfiguration, Recognition." In "Technologies of Public Persuasion", Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Elizabeth A. Povinelli, eds. 15(3): 385-397, 2003.

*"The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism". Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

*"Radical Worlds: The Anthropology of Incommensurability and Inconceivability". The Annual Review of Anthropology. Volume 30: 319-34, 2001.

*"Thinking Sexuality Transnationally". Special Issue glq 5(4) Edited with George Chauncey, 5(4), 1999.

*"Labor's Lot: The Power, History and Culture of Aboriginal Action". Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.

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External Links

* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/anthropology/fac-bios/povinelli/faculty.html Columbia University Faculty Bio]
* [http://www.publicculture.org/authors/elizabeth_povinelli Public Culture Author Page]