This edited collection provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.
Bob Simpson is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.
Introduction: The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics and Chronocracy 1. Migrant Imaginaries, Multiple Selves, and the Varieties of Temporal Experience 2. The Tree and the Net: Spatio-Temporal Narratives of Human Population Genomics 3. The Pulverous State: Chronocracy and Affect in the Politics of Environmental Risk in Italy 4. Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Era 5. Depressing Time: Waiting, Melancholia, and the Psychoanalytic Practice of Care 6. Monsoon Uncertainties, Hydro-Chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka 7. Partial Decomposition: Peat and its Life Cycles 8. Anticipatory Nostalgia and Nomadic Temporality: A Case Study of Chronocracy in the Crypto-Colony 9. The Moment Ethnography Becomes Past: De-temporalising Ethnographic Nostalgia