Elizabeth Povinelli

Elizabeth A. Povinelli (* 1962 in Buffalo ) is an American anthropologist .

She is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University , where she is director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and was co-director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture . Her research, publications and films examine liberalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous and American queer contexts. She is the author of books and articles on the critical theory of liberalism and former editor of the journal Public Culture .

Professional background

Povinelli received her BA in Philosophy and Mathematics in 1984 from St. John's College in Santa Fe. She completed her Masters in 1988 at Yale University , where she also completed her PhD in Anthropology in 1991. Povinelli is one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film Collective .

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Povinelli's academic research focuses on developing a critical theory of settler liberalism, which, according to her thesis, promotes an anthropology of the other. Povinelli criticizes this theory of the other, which is primarily shaped by the colonial theory of the settlers and pragmatism, with regard to its power-political consequences.

In Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism Povinelli, shows that the concept of biopolitics by Foucault is not able to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance. To this end, she suggests the term geontopower, which also addresses the aspects of geological and ontological power techniques. Geontological power or geontopower refers to the hierarchy of power within late liberal society that is determined by what is called life and non-life. In this context, for example, the distinction between biology and geology serves as a mechanism to exclude indigenous peoples from the participation of Western society in practices and to justify colonialism. Geontologies examines this power formation from the perspective of the indigenous Australian population and their protests and struggles against the settler state. Povinelli also examines how contemporary critical concepts - anthropogenic climate change , plasticity , new materialism , anti-normativity - which actually want to criticize geontopower, often inadvertently turn into a foundation of the same.

Together with the Karrabing Film Collective, Povinelli has participated in exhibitions at the Sydney Biennale , Tate Modern in London, Documenta-14 and MoMA, PS1 in New York.

Awards

• Recipient of the German Transatlantic Program Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in autumn 2011.

• As part of the Karrabing Fim Collectives, Povinelli received the MIFF 2015 Cinema Nova Award for best short film and the Visible Award 2015.

• In 2018 she was elected a corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

• Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism received the Lionel Trilling Book Award in 2017.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
• Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
• The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
• The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism . Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
• Labor's Lot: The Power, History and Culture of Aboriginal Action . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.

items

• "The Urban Intensions of Geontopower", e-flux architecture , May 2019.
• "Mother Earth: Public Sphere, Biosphere, Colonial Sphere", e-flux, # 92, June 2018.
• "Horizons and Frontiers, Late Liberal Territoriality, and Toxic Habitats," e-flux , # 90, April 2018.
• "The Ends of Humans: Anthropocene, Autonomism, Antagonism and the Illusions of our Epoch," South Atlantic Quarterly 116 (2), 293-310, 2017.
• "Geontologies: The Concept and Its Territories", e-flux, # 81, April 2017.
• “Technologies of Public Form: Circulation, Transfiguration, Recognition.” In: Technologies of Public Persuasion , Ed .: Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Elizabeth A. Povinelli 15 (3): 385-397, 2003.
• "Radical Worlds: The Anthropology of Incommensurability and Inconceivability." Annual Review of Anthropology . Volume 30: 319-334, 2001.

Films (selection)

• Day in the Life (2020)
• The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland (2018)
• Night Time Go (2017)
• The Jealous One (2017)
• Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams (2016)
• Windjarrameru, The Stealing C * nt $ (2015)
• Karrabing! Low Tide Turning (2012)
• When the Dogs Talked (2014)

Individual evidence

1. ^ House of World Cultures: Contributor: Elizabeth A. Povinelli. July 17, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Elizabeth A. Povinelli | Department of Anthropology. Retrieved February 20, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Elizabeth Povinelli. In: American Academy. October 1, 2016, Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English). 
4. ↑ Info Unltd with Elizabeth Povinelli and Ana Guzmán. Retrieved February 20, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Elizabeth Povinelli. In: American Academy. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English). 
6. ↑ 2015 Shorts Awards. Retrieved February 20, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Karrabing Film Collective wins the 2015 Visible Award. In: visibleproject. November 3, 2015, Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English). 
8. ↑ Welcoming our newly elected fellows. In: Australian Academy of the Humanities. November 18, 2018, accessed February 20, 2020 (Australian English). 
9. ↑ CalArts Welcomes Elizabeth Povinelli and Saidiya Hartman as 2020 and 2021 Theorist in Residence. March 28, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 (American English).