Anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli on Climate Change, Aboriginal 'Dreaming' and Deontology (2014)
Channel: Anthropology: Do Kamo
Date: 2021-11-25

Povinelli's ethnographic work, related to land development, mining, Climate Change and indigenous governance in Australia, brought her in contact with the Karrabing Indigenous Corporation, which was founded to explore how contemporary green digital technologies might be mobilized to create a revenue stream while maintaining their understanding of a living responsive landscape. 

This talk, "Downloading the Dreaming? All of it extinguished but none of it dead?", from 2014 explores contemporary theories of immaterial capital (Negri) and critical climate change through their endeavour, unpacking in the process the shift underway in late liberalism from a biopolitical to a geontopolitical form of power. 


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The Australian Karrabing Indigenous Corporation was founded in 2009 in the wake of the most dramatic change in federal policy towards Indigenous people since the 1970s. In the wake of a sex panic pertaining to the abuse of children in Indigenous communities, the Australian federal government declared an emergency intervention in Indigenous governance that, in effect, ended the era of so-called self-determination and inaugurated a neoliberal approach to land management focused on land development and mining. 

13th European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) Biennial Conference: "Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution - innovation and continuity in an interconnected world". Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. 31st of July, 2014.

Speaker: Elizabeth Povinelli (Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University)

Title: 'Downloading the Dreaming? All of it extinguished but none of it dead?


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⸙ "Downloading the Dreaming? All of it extinguished but none of it dead" [https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2014/events.shtml#keynote] by Elizabeth Povinelli (speaker) [https://anthropology.columbia.edu/content/elizabeth-povinelli], Tallinn University (inviting institution) [https://www.tlu.ee/en] and the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) [https://www.easaonline.org/] is licensed under CC BY 3.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/]. Content modifications: improved audio (noise reduction) & cut-out final (inaudible) question (3.50 minutes).


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#Alteration #Estonia #Tallinn #Columbia #Aboriginals #Indigenous #Karrabing