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Doubt, conflict, mediation : the anthropology of modern time

documentary heritage
  • Other Name

    Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Special issue ; volume 20, 2014 (Series)

  • Description

    "What is modern time? Reopening a question fundamental to the disciplines of anthropology and sociology, this volume challenges existing approaches to capitalist time. Through ethnographies of economic, bureaucratic, and political institutions across the world, it explores how they mediate representations, techniques, and rhythms of time.

    The timescapes of biotech laboratories, civic organizations, planning offices, global sea trade, social movements, urban squatting, and state bureaucracies are explored. New analytical tools derived from a wide range of authors, including Althusser, Deleuze, Gell, Marx, Munn, Negri, and Postone are offered. Overall the volume argues that time in modernity is characterized by doubt, conflict, and mediation. This makes it the most precious and contentious resource of our age."--Back cover.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    BD638 DOU (Library of Congress Call Number)

    83583 (Cat ID)

    83555 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Doubt, conflict, mediation : the anthropology of modern time
  • Other Name

    Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Special issue ; volume 20, 2014 (Series)

  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
  • Place
  • Date
    2014
  • Physical Description

    ix, 186 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9781118903872
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    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 / Felix 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 Himalayas / Nayanika Mathur
    8. A wedge of time : futures in the present and presents without futures in Maputo, Mozambique / Morten Nielsen.
  • Public Access Text

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Collection Type
    General Collection
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    02 Oct 2024
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