Virus as a figure of geontopower or how to practice Foucault now?: A conversation with Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Virus as a figure of geontopower or how to practice Foucault now? : A conversation with Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor at Columbia University, is a philosopher and anthropologist who has critically engaged with Michel Foucault’s ideas as well as scholarship inspired by his works. Povinelli has been dedicated to research on colonialism within liberalism and is also a filmmaker and founding member of The Karrabing Film Collective. The film collective is part of a larger organization of Aboriginal peoples and artists living in the Australian Northern Territory that refuses ‘fantasies of sovereignty and property’.[1]As Povinelli shares with us during the interview, her trajectory was constituted in the middle of the 1980s following her life-changing encounter with the elders in Belyuen in the Australian Northern Territory. In the wake of that encounter, and with urgent issues raised about indigeneity due to changes in Australian law, Povinelli has been working even closer with her Karrabing family. The changes in law both acknowledged Aboriginal peoples' rights to their territory and imposed certain ideas of identity, family and culture, producing an entanglement between rights and government. These efforts to manage differences – cultural, race, gender – are problematized and deciphered in Povinelli’s ethnographic work with a focus on how late settler liberalism has been reconfigured with novel expressions of colonialism and imperialism.

HUMANIORA Annan humaniora Etnologi hsv//swe
HUMANITIES Other Humanities Ethnology hsv//eng
HUMANIORA Annan humaniora Övrig annan humaniora hsv//swe
HUMANITIES Other Humanities Other Humanities not elsewhere specified hsv//eng
HUMANIORA Annan humaniora Kulturstudier hsv//swe
HUMANITIES Other Humanities Cultural Studies hsv//eng
COVID-19
Pandemic
Syndemic
Anthropology
Indigineity
Neoliberalism
Biopolitics
Foucault
Interdisciplinary
Populations
Governing
History of medicine
Organization
Engineering Science with specialization in industrial engineering and management
Teknisk fysik med inriktning mot industriell teknik

Skoglund, Annika,Docent,1977-Uppsala universitet,Industriell teknik,University of Bristol(Swepub:uu)annsk830 (author)
Sekhar Purakayastha, AnindyaKazi Nazrul University (author)
Armstrong, DavidKing's College U.K. (author)
Povinelli, Elisabeth A.Columbia University (contributor)
University of São PauloIndustriell teknik (creator_code:org_t)

By the author/editor: Jardim, Fabiana; Skoglund, Annika ...; Sekhar Purakayas ...; Armstrong, David; Povinelli, Elisa ...

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