Between Gaia and Ground : Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism / Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Durham, London; Duke University Press; 2021Description: 184p; 23x15cmISBN:

9781478014577

Subject(s):

GF75 Human ecology. Anthropogeography- Human influences on the environment

LOC classification:

BD311.P68 2021

Summary: The author theorizes the climatic, environmental, viral and social catastrophe present as an ancestral catastrophe through which indigenuous 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, Cesaire and Arendt, she 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	SAF Reference Library Book Case #9	Geography. Anthropology. Recreation.	GF75 9- 165.23 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available

The author theorizes the climatic, environmental, viral and social catastrophe present as an ancestral catastrophe through which indigenuous 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, Cesaire and Arendt, she 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.

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