Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic

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Life Beside Itself is a profound reflection on the psychic life of biopolitics and how the biopolitical state, committed to enhancing the life of the population, renders lifeless a people’s particular form of life. Lisa Stevenson writes with attentiveness to the care that binds the living and the dead in Inuit communities. That is itself a form of ethical living. Her writing is surely touched by grace. Her book illuminates the problem of suicide as the light of the moon illuminates a darkened sky. She helps us not to turn away from this suffering but to hold it. This book is truly a treasure.–Veena Das, author of Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty

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Author

Lisa Stevenson

Format

Paperback

Publication Date

August 22, 2014

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