Vertiginous Life

An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-193-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations

Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday affects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive in the uncanny elsewhen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knight, Daniel M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: Vertiginous Lives

Chapter 1. Mairi: The Nausea of Unknowingness

Chapter 2. Dimitris: Rebuilding from Rubble

Chapter 3. Antonis: Technology and the Elsewhen

Chapter 4. Alexia: Life in Suspension

Chapter 5. Aphrodite: Captivity of Chronic Crisis

Conclusion: Parting Shots

Epilogue: A Note on Crisis

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Knight, Daniel M.
Daniel M. Knight is Reader in the Department of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is author of History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece (Palgrave, 2015) and co-author of The Anthropology of the Future (Cambridge, 2019, with Rebecca Bryant).