{{Short description|Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies}} {{Infobox philosopher |name = Elizabeth Povinelli |birth_name = Elizabeth A. Povinelli |image = Elizabeth Povinelli in Workshop Semiotics after Geontopower.jpg |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|2|3}} |birth_place = Buffalo, New York, US |death_date = |death_place = |alma_mater = Yale University |institutions = Columbia University |main_interests = Anthropology, Gender Studies |notable_ideas = Anthropology of otherwise }} '''Elizabeth A. Povinelli''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA}} is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190622022615/https://anthropology.columbia.edu/people/profile/354 Elizabeth A. Povinelli] (Archived url)</ref> and Gender Studies at Columbia University, where she has also been the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Culture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/author/povinellie/|title=Social Science Research Council Author Page|access-date=2008-08-05|archive-date=2008-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705212306/http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/author/povinellie/|url-status=dead}}</ref> She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yale Dissertation|url=http://www.proquest.com/docview/303961484|publisher=Yale University|accessdate=12 October 2013|id={{ProQuest|303961484}} }}</ref> She is the author of books and essays of critical theory as well as a former editor of the academic journal ''Public Culture''.
She was the recipient of the German Transatlantic Program Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Fall 2011. In 2018 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.humanities.org.au/fellows/fellows/|title=Fellows|website=Australian Academy of the Humanities|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref> She received an honorary degree in the Arts from the University of Antwerp in 2025.<ref>{{cite web |title=Honorary degree in Arts 2025: Prof. Elizabeth Povinelli |url=https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/aria/activities/research-seminars/honorary-degree-in-arts-2025/ |website=Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) |publisher=University of Antwerp |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref>
== Academic work and publications == Povinelli's work has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism that would support an "anthropology of the otherwise".{{Definition needed|date=February 2020}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/244/ |title=The journal e-flux |access-date=2011-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013071516/http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/244 |archive-date=2011-10-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This critical task is animated by a critical engagement with the traditions of American pragmatism and continental immanent critique and grounded in the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities within settler liberalisms.{{Definition needed|date=February 2020}} Her first two books examined the governance of the otherwise in late liberal settler colonies from the perspective of the politics of recognition. In particular, they focused on impasses within liberal systems of law and value as they meet local Australian indigenous worlds, and the effect of these impasses on the development of legal and public culture in Australia. Her second two books, ''The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality'' and ''Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism'', examine formations of the Late Liberal Anthropocene from the perspective of intimacy, embodiment, and narrative form.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6TLlgTg3LQ|title=Elizabeth A. Povinelli | Keynote | The Anthropocene Project. An Opening|date=20 January 2013 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> Her books, ''Geontologies'', ''Between Gaia and Ground'', and ''The Inheritance'' explore the governance of existence, political identity and the problem of the ancestral.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metropolism.com/en/features/46494_senses_sedimentations_a_conversation_with_elizabeth_a_povinelli|title=Senses / Sedimentations – a conversation with Elizabeth A. Povinelli - Features - Metropolis M|website=www.metropolism.com}}</ref> ''Geontologies'' received the 2017 Lionel Trilling Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/news/professors-elizabeth-povinelli-and-caterina-luigia-pizzigoni-receive-student-awards-teaching |title=Professors Elizabeth Povinelli and Caterina Luigia Pizzigoni to receive student awards for teaching and publishing |website=college.columbia.edu |date=7 April 2017 |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref> The Inheritance received a starred review on Kirkus.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/elizabeth-povinelli/the-inheritance-povinelli/|title= THE INHERITANCE | Kirkus Reviews}}</ref>
== Films with Karrabing == Povinelli is one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film Collective.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://karrabing.info/|title=karrabing - keeping country live|website=karrabing}}</ref> They have made eight major films including ''Karrabing, Low Tide Turning'', which were selected for the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival, Shorts Competition,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2012/02_programm_2012/02_Filmdatenblatt_2012_20127000.php#tab=filmStills/|title=Berlinale Film Festival 2012}}</ref>''When the Dogs Talked,'' and ''Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$'' which premiered at the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival.<ref>[http://miff.com.au/program/film/karrabing-film-collective-shorts!/ Melbourne International Film Festival 2015]</ref> Povinelli and the Karrabing Indigenous Corporation received the MIFF 2015 Cinema Nova Award for Best Short Fiction Film for ''When the Dogs Talked.'' <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://miff.com.au/about/film-awards/shorts/|title=MIFF 2015 Shorts Awards|access-date=2015-08-13|archive-date=2015-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825034802/http://miff.com.au/about/film-awards/shorts|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Karrabing Film Collective<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=http://www.karrabing.com/ |title=Karrabing, Keeping Country Live! |access-date=2012-01-21 |archive-date=2013-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610062153/http://karrabing.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> received the 2015 Visible Award.<ref>[http://www.visibleproject.org/blog/karrabing-film-collective-wins-the-2015-visible-award/ 2015 Visible Award]</ref> Their corpus of work received the Eye Prize from the Eye Filmmuseum, Amesterdam in 2021. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/about-eye/eye-prize/karrabing-film-collective|title=Winner Eye Prize 2021 | Karrabing Film Collective|website=Eye Filmmuseum}}</ref>
== Individual Films & Art Works == Povinelli's individual artworks have been shown in a number of galleries including Prometeo Gallery, Milan,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.prometeogallery.com/it/artista/elizabeth-povinelli-karrabing-film-collective|title=Elizabeth Povinelli / Karrabing Film Collective | Artista | Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani|website=www.prometeogallery.com}}</ref> ar/ge gallery, Bolzano,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://atpdiary.com/the-lying-body-only-ar-ge-kunst-bolzano-guidi/|title=The Lying Body: Only the Futures Revisit the Past | ar/ge kunst, Bolzano | Intervista con Emanuele Guidi | ATP DIARY The Lying Body: Only the Futures Revisit the Past | ar/ge kunst, Bolzano | Intervista con Emanuele Guidi|date=October 12, 2022}}</ref> the Biennale Gherdëina,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/persones-persons-biennale-gherdeina-review-2022|title=Biennale Gherdëina Makes a Case for Pleasure|first=Tom|last=Jeffreys|date=July 6, 2022}}</ref> and MADRE, Naples.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.madrenapoli.it/en/exhibition/|title=Rethinking Nature | Exhibitions | MutualArt|website=www.madrenapoli.it}}</ref> Her film, ''The Inheritance'', made with Thomas Bartlett, premiered with Taxispalais, Innsbruck.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.taxispalais.art/en/programm/kalender/film-screening-and-talk-with-elizabeth-a-povinelli|title=Film Screening and Talk with Elizabeth A. Povinelli - Taxispalais}}</ref> A series of her drawings reimagining prehistory as a series of colonial sedimentations was part of the reopening of the Museo delle Civiltà, Rome, in 2022. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/romes-reopened-museum-of-civilizations-is-decolonizing-its-collection-2205490|title=Rome's Newly Reopened Museum of Civilizations Is Decolonizing Its Collection. It Is a Rare Success Story|first=Hili|last=Perlson|date=November 8, 2022|website=Artnet News}}</ref>
Povinelli also appeared in the documentary film ''Apparition of the Eternal Church'' (2006), directed by Paul Festa, about the French composer Olivier Messiaen's organ work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810758/|title=Apparition of the Eternal Church|date=January 28, 2006|via=IMDb}}</ref>
==Selected bibliography== *''Routes/Worlds.'' eflux books Sternberg Press, 2022. *''Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism.'' Duke University Press, 2021. *''The Inheritance, Duke University Press.'' Duke University Press, 2021. *''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism, Duke University Press.'' Duke University Press, 2016. *''Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism. Duke University Press.'' Duke University Press, 2011. *"Interview with Elizabeth Povinelli by Kim Turcot DiFruscia, ''Alterites Femmes'', 7.1: 88-98. *"Digital Futures." ''Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular'', 3.2.2009. *''The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality''. A Public Planet Book. Duke University Press, 2006. *"Technologies of Public Form: Circulation, Transfiguration, Recognition." In ''Technologies of Public Persuasion'', Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Elizabeth A. Povinelli, eds. 15(3): 385-397, 2003. *''The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism''. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. *"Radical Worlds: The Anthropology of Incommensurability and Inconceivability." ''Annual Review of Anthropology''. Volume 30: 319-34, 2001. *''Labor's Lot: The Power, History and Culture of Aboriginal Action''. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
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==External links== *[http://www.elizabethpovinelli.com Elizabeth Povinelli Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825100453/http://elizabethpovinelli.com/ |date=2013-08-25 }} *[http://anthropology.columbia.edu/people/profile/354 Columbia University Faculty Bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121221215919/http://anthropology.columbia.edu/people/profile/354 |date=2012-12-21 }} *[http://www.publicculture.org/authors/elizabeth_povinelli Public Culture Author Page] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090918221853/http://www.cdu.edu.au/sspr/contact.html School for Social and Policy Research, Charles Darwin University] *[http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=90&thread=ProjectCredits Digital Futures Interactive Essay]
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