On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise

Affect, Tourism, Belize

von Kenneth Little

206 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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. They 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.

• Reihe: New Directions in Anthropology
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781789206463
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2020
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books