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The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality

The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality

Povinelli, Elizabeth A.

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Series: Public Planet Books

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesSexuality

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ISBN10: 082233836X
ISBN13: 9780822338369
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 30 2006
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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, and value converge.

For more than twenty years, Povinelli has traveled to the social worlds of indigenous men and women living at Belyuen, a small community in the Northern Territory of Australia. More recently she has moved across communities of alternative progressive queer movements in the United States, particularly those who identify as radical faeries. In this book she traces how liberal binary concepts of individual freedom and social constraint influence understandings of intimacy in these two worlds. At the same time, she describes alternative models of social relations within each group in order to highlight modes of intimacy that transcend a reductive choice between freedom and constraint.

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