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

by Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338890
• ISBN13: 9780822338895
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.0"