The Time of Anthropology

Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics
Herausgeber: Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth; Simpson, Bob

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781350125827
• ISBN-10: 1350125822
• Artikelnr.: 56929195

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Kirtsoglou is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK. Bob Simpson is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary
Chronopolitics and Chronocracy 1. Migrant Imaginaries, Multiple Selves, and
the Varieties of Temporal Experience 2. The Tree and the Net:
Spatio-Temporal Narratives of Human Population Genomics 3. The Pulverous
State: Chronocracy and Affect in the Politics of Environmental Risk in
Italy 4. Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics
in the Post-Industrial Era 5. Depressing Time: Waiting, Melancholia, and
the Psychoanalytic Practice of Care 6. Monsoon Uncertainties,
Hydro-Chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka 7. Partial
Decomposition: Peat and its Life Cycles 8. Anticipatory Nostalgia and
Nomadic Temporality: A Case Study of Chronocracy in the Crypto-Colony 9.
The Moment Ethnography Becomes Past: De-temporalising Ethnographic
Nostalgia