Time of Anthropology Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics

The Time of Anthropology 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. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contempo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth, editor (editor), Simpson, Bob, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge 2020.
Colección:ASA monographs
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009820243006719
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  • 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.