1st Edition
The Time of Anthropology Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics
Introduction: The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics and Chronocracy
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou and Bob Simpson
1. Migrant Imaginaries, Multiple Selves, and the Varieties of Temporal Experience
Michael D. Jackson
2. The Tree and the Net: Spatio-Temporal Narratives of Human Population Genomics
Peter Wade
3. The Pulverous State: Chronocracy and Affect in the Politics of Environmental Risk in Italy
Mateusz Laszczkowski
4. Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Era
Felix Ringel
5. Depressing Time: Waiting, Melancholia, and the Psychoanalytic Practice of Care
Laura Salisbury and Lisa Baraitser
6. Monsoon uncertainties, Hydro-chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka
Tom Widger and Upul Wickramasinghe
7. Partial Decomposition: Peat and its Life Cycles
Richard Irvine
8. Anticipatory Nostalgia and Nomadic Temporality: A Case Study of Chronocracy in the Crypto-colony
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
9. The Moment Ethnography Becomes Past: De-temporalising Ethnographic Nostalgia
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Biography
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.
Bob Simpson is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.
