On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize

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Little, Kenneth

 
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Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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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9781805393443: On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize

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ISBN 10 :  1805393448 ISBN 13 :  9781805393443
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2024
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