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On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise

Affect, Tourism, Belize
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
206 Seiten
Englisch
Berghahn Bookserschienen am02.08.2024
There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. Lives turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.mehr
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KlappentextThere are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. Lives turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-80539-344-3
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum02.08.2024
Seiten206 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 11 mm
Gewicht307 g
Artikel-Nr.60856448

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Writing Stories of Make-BelizeChapter 1. For the Time is at Hand : Beast-Time Somet´ingsChapter 2. Impossible TropicsChapter 3. Richie´s TouristsChapter 4. Nowhere ParadiseChapter 5. Belize EphemeraChapter 6. Belize BluesChapter 7. Parca´s PicksEpilogue: Belize FabulationsGlossaryReferencesIndexmehr

Autor

Kenneth Little is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Department of Anthropology, York University in Toronto. His research focuses on the analysis of society as spectacle, the critical turn in anthropology to the study of affect, social creativity, experiments in ethnographic writing, and performativity.