On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise

Affect, Tourism, Belize

Kenneth Little (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-344-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing Stories of Make-Belize

Chapter 1. “For the Time is at Hand”: Beast-Time Somet’ings

Chapter 2. Impossible Tropics

Chapter 3. Richie’s Tourists

Chapter 4. Nowhere Paradise

Chapter 5. Belize Ephemera

Chapter 6. Belize Blues

Chapter 7. Parca’s Picks

Epilogue: Belize Fabulations

Glossary

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-344-8 / 1805393448
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-344-3 / 9781805393443
Zustand	Neuware