Description
Book SynopsisDoubt, Conflict, Mediation is an interdisciplinary examination and reassessment of standard assumptions in social theory about modern time.
- Rethinks capitalist and neo-liberal conceptions of time from both a sociological and anthropological perspective
- Blends innovative and rich ethnographic studies from around the world with clear theoretical approaches
- Examines the timescapes of a variety of institutions and social movements, such as biotech laboratories, civic organizations, planning offices, global sea-trade, urban squatting, and state bureaucracies
Table of ContentsNotes on contributors
Introduction: Doubt, conflict, mediation: the anthropology of modern time (Laura Bear)
Economic times
1 Immanent anthropology: a comparative study of ‘process’ in contemporary France (Matt Hodges)
2 Post-industrial times and the unexpected: endurance and sustainability in Germany’s fastest-shrinking city (Fellix Ringel)
3 For labour: Ajeet’s accident and the ethics of technological fixes in time (Laura Bear)
Political times
4 Historical narrative, mundane political time, and revolutionary moments: coexisting temporalities in the lived experience of social movements (Sian Lazar)
5 Rethinking reproductive politics in time, and time in UK reproductive politics: 1978-2008 (Sarah Franklin)
Bureaucratic times
6 The time it takes: temporalities of planning (Simone Abram)
7 The reign of terror of the big cat: bureaucracy and the mediation of social times in the Indian Himalaya (Nayanika Mathur)
8 A wedge of time: futures in the present and presents without futures in Maputo, Mozambique (Morten Nielsen)
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