Between Gaia and Ground - Four Axioms of Existence Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism

Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes how the legacies of colonial violence and the ways the dispossession and extraction that destroyed Indigenous and colonized peoples' lives now poses an existential threat to the West.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes how the legacies of colonial violence and the ways the dispossession and extraction that destroyed Indigenous and colonized peoples' lives now poses an existential threat to the West.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth A. Povinelli
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781478014577
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1457-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day