The Time of Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000182620
• Artikelnr.: 60736631

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