ABSTRACT
The images of Hawaii’s Kelauea and Guatemala’s Fuego volcanic eruptions have reiterated to the world that volcanoes are unpredictable forces of destruction. This chapter focuses on a set of 15 semi-structured interviews, three focus groups and field notes from observations undertaken with communities impacted by permanent volcanic emissions of Masaya volcano during the period covering February to April 2017. It begins by stressing that if the Anthropocene is to become an opportunity to rethink the place of humans in the realm of geological life, then what is conceived as time needs to be opened up to a plurality of ways of knowing and sensing non-human life that are implicated in the processes of dealing with hazards. The temporal collision is very central to the Anthropocene, as not only is its agency made of deep geological time, but also its trajectory is projecting us into the accelerated dynamics of anticipation and anxiety that define the modality of the future it purports.
