Vertiginous Life - An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Daniel M. Knight, Knight Daniel M.
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781800739109
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-910-9
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: New Anthropologies of Europe; New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Greece, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Social attitudes