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19 juillet 2002

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9780822383673

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The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with their colonizers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic traditional culture.Povinelli draws on seventeen years of ethnographic research among northwest coast indigenous people and her own experience participating in land claims, as well as on public records, legal debates, and anthropological archives to examine how multicultural forms of recognition work to reinforce liberal regimes rather than to open them up to a true cultural democracy. The Cunning of Recognition argues that the inequity of liberal forms of multiculturalism arises not from its weak ethical commitment to difference but from its strongest vision of a new national cohesion. In the end, Australia is revealed as an exemplary site for studying the social effects of the liberal multicultural imaginary: much earlier than the United States and in response to very different geopolitical conditions, Australian nationalism renounced the ideal of a unitary European tradition and embraced cultural and social diversity.While addressing larger theoretical debates in critical anthropology, political theory, cultural studies, and liberal theory, The Cunning of Recognition demonstrates that the impact of the globalization of liberal forms of government can only be truly understood by examining its concrete-and not just philosophical-effects on the world.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

19 juillet 2002

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822383673

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English

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THE CUNNING OF RECOGNITION

POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE A series from the International Institute at the University of Michig an

 : George Steinmetz and Julia Adams    : Fernando Coronil, Geoﬀ Eley, Fatma Muge Gocek, Nancy Hunt Rose, Webb Keane, David Laitin, Ching-Kwan Lee, Julie Skurski, Margaret Somers, Katherine Verdery, Elizabeth Wingrove

Sponsored by the International Institute at the University of Michi gan and published by the Duke University Press, this series is centered around cultural and hist orical studies of power, politics, and the state—a ﬁeld that cuts across the disciplines of history, sociology, anthro-pology, political science, and cultural studies. The focus on the relationship between state and culture refers both to a methodological approach—the study of politics and the state using culturalist methods—and a substantive one that treats signifying pr actices as an essential dimension of politics. The dialectic of politics, culture, and history ﬁgures prominently in all the books selected for the series.

THE CUNNING OF RECOGNITION

Indigenous Alterities and the Making

of Australian Multiculturalism

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Duke University Press Durham & London

©  Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Minion by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

TO CLAIRE AND ERIC KREBS WHO CHANGED OUR MINDS

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Critical Common Sense   / Mutant Messages   / The Vulva Thieves (Atna Nylkna): Modal Ethics and the Colonial Archive   / Sex Rites, Civil Rights   / Shamed States   / The Poetics of Ghosts: Social Reproduction in the Archive of the Nation   / The Truest Belief Is Compulsion  Notes  Selected Works Cited  Index 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is the result of conversations with a number of people who were generous to share with me their insights on problems addressed in the fol-lowing pages. Gillian Collishaw, Francesca Merlan, Deborah Bird Rose, and Alan Rumsey provided critical conversation on indigenous social life from an anthropological perspective. Wendy Asche, Ross Howie, Tom Keely, Jessica Klingender, Maria Lovinson, Ken Lum, and Ben Scambari and others work-ing at the Northern Land Council played a vital role in deepening my thinking about the legal and institutional mediations of indigenous recognition. The staﬀ working at the Australian Archives in Darwin, Sydney, and Melbourne, with the Elkin papers at the University of Sydney, with the Stanner papers at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Council library, and at the North-ern Territory Archives provided patient, vital help navigating the historical

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