Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism

by Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Book Overview

In Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A. Povinelli explores how late liberal imaginaries of tense, eventfulness, and ethical substance make the global distribution of life and death, hope and harm, and endurance and exhaustion not merely sensible but also just. She presents new ways of conceptualizing formations of power in late liberalism--the shape that liberal governmentality has taken as it has responded to a series of legitimacy crises...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082235084X
• ISBN13: 9780822350842
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"