{"product_id":"the-empire-of-love-toward-a-theory-of-intimacy-genealogy-and-carnality-paperback","title":"The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth a. Povinelli\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Empire of Love\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShifting focus away from identities toward the social matrices out of which identities and divisions emerge, Povinelli offers a framework for thinking through such issues as what counts as sexuality and which forms of intimate social relations result in the distribution of rights, recognition, and resources, and which do not. In \u003ci\u003eThe Empire of Love\u003c\/i\u003e Povinelli calls for, and begins to formulate, a politics of \"thick life,\" a way of representing social life nuanced enough to meet the density and variation of actual social worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat a brilliant book. Elizabeth A. Povinelli strives to make all the intellectual moves that need to be made today: connecting studies of sexuality to other phenomena that seem to be unrelated, thus opening out what gets to count as 'sexuality'; thinking about sexuality in relation to liberal governance; and moving us beyond the binary opposition of freedom versus constraint. These arguments are refreshing as well as pressing for our times.-- Lisa Rofel, author of \"Desiring China\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth A. Povinelli is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University, where she is also Codirector of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press. She is a former editor of the journal \u003ci\u003ePublic Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.04 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 30, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130219597959,"sku":"9780822338895","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6b9302815ae24e993e8cd809ba57551a.webp?v=1732609309","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-empire-of-love-toward-a-theory-of-intimacy-genealogy-and-carnality-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}