In the Meantime
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In the Meantime

Toward an Anthropology of the Possible

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In the Meantime

Toward an Anthropology of the Possible

About this book

The "meantime" represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of "the possible" where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral. Attending to the temporalities of emerging rather than settled facts, they put the stress on the temporal tactics, social commitments, material connections, dispositional orientations, and affective circuits that emerge in the meantime even in the most desperate times.

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Yes, you can access In the Meantime by Adeline Masquelier, Deborah Durham, Adeline Masquelier,Deborah Durham in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction. Minding the Gap in the Meantime
  8. Chapter 1. “Just Waiting”: Korean Chinese Mobility and Immobility in Transnational Migration
  9. Chapter 2. In the Meanplace: Traversing Boom and Bust in China’s High Growth/Ghost Town
  10. Entretemps. “A Lot of Standing Around in the Dark”: Specters of Waiting in Paranormal Research
  11. Chapter 3. Raising Consciousness in the Costa Rican Seasonal Low
  12. Chapter 4. Stranded in Decolonization: The Attritional Temporality of Sahrawi Activism in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara
  13. Entretemps. Machine-Made Time: Dialysis and the Complexities of Waiting and Planning
  14. Chapter 5. Waiting for Thieves: Nighttime Capital and the Labor of Sitting in Niger
  15. Chapter 6. Waiting to Heal in “Crip Time”: Temporalities of Chronic Skin Wounds among Gunshot Survivors in New Orleans
  16. Entretemps. Urgency, Boredom, and Pandemic Mean/Time(s)
  17. Chapter 7. African Time, Waiting, and Deadlines in Botswana
  18. Chapter 8. Waiting Out the Rush: On the Durability of Wealth in Kenya’s Coastal Sex Economies
  19. Afterword. In Slow Time
  20. Index