Economies of AbandonmentIn Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A. Povinelli explores how late liberal imaginaries of tense, eventfulness, and ethical substance make the global distribution of life and death, hope and harm, and endurance and exhaustion not merely sensible but also just. She presents new ways of conceptualizing formations of power in late liberalismthe shape that liberal governmentality has taken as it has responded to a series of legitimacy crises in the wake