For emplacement : political ontology in two acts / Mario Blaser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaser, Mario, 1966- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography--Political aspects.

Human geography.

Postcolonialism.

Globalization--Political aspects.

Globalization.

Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Chamacoco Indians.

Innu Indians.

Ethnology--Latin America.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"In For Emplacement Mario Blaser argues that in a world marked by increased displacement of peoples, the infrastructures created to deal with issues of displacement weaken and undermine the infrastructures created to encourage emplacement. Blaser draws from personal experiences and fieldwork in Latin America and Canada, asking what he posits is a political question: how do we live together well? For Blaser, potentially fruitful answers to this key question come in finding a balance between emplacement and displacement by grappling with a political ontology that embraces the multiplicities of our world. Structuring the book as if it were a theatrical play, Blaser uses the volume's prelude to analyze the limits and boundaries between emplacement and displacement before moving into the ethnographic exploration of infrastructures of emplacement and displacement amongst the Yshiro people in Act I. The interlude makes clear the dominance of displacement infrastructure, while Act II returns once more to ethnography to examine formations of power and the role of science in the emplaced Innu communities of Canada. The concluding postlude provides opportunities to apply Blaser's theorization of political ontology, displacement, and emplacement onto other specific communities throughout the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Political ontology and the problem of displacement/emplacement

Prelude. Small stories

Uncommoning the territory of the common good (on being faithful to the pluriverse)

Interlude. Big stories

Being careful with Atiku, killing caribou (the science question in cosmopolitics)

Postlude. Viably small stories for the displaced.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Blaser, Mario, 1966- For emplacement.

ISBN:

9781478094166

1478094168

9781478060284

147806028X

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.