ABSTRACT

The Time of Anthropology 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. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.

The Introduction and Chapters 5, 6, and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

chapter |30 pages

Introduction

The time of anthropology: studies of contemporary chronopolitics and chronocracy

chapter 2|20 pages

The tree and the net

Spatio-temporal narratives of human population genomics

chapter 3|19 pages

The pulverous state

Chronocracy and affect in the politics of environmental risk in Italy

chapter 4|19 pages

Contextualising expectations

Reconfiguring progressive politics in the post-industrial era

chapter 5|20 pages

Depressing time

Waiting, melancholia, and the psychoanalytic practice of care

chapter 7|17 pages

Partial decomposition

Peat and its life cycles

chapter 8|28 pages

Anticipatory nostalgia and nomadic temporality

A case study of chronocracy in the crypto-colony

chapter 9|17 pages

The moment ethnography becomes past

De-temporalising ethnographic nostalgia