Ethnographies of Austerity - Temporality, Crisis and Affect in Southern Europe

Informationen zum Autor Daniel M. Knight is a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK, and Visiting Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics, UK. He is author of History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece (2015) and is associate editor of the History and Anthropology journal. Charles Stewart is Professor of Anthropology at University College London, UK. His most recent book is Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece (2012). His current research focuses on syncretism, creolization, dreaming, the anthropology of religion and topics in the borderland between anthropology and history such as continuity/change, temporality, and historicity. Zusammenfassung This collection brings together ethnographies of living with austerity in the Eurozone, focusing on how crises stimulate temporal thought. Contributors explore how the past may be refashioned under contracting economic horizons, challenging assumptions of history and time as organising structures. This book was originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Ethnographies of Austerity: Temporality, Crisis and Affect in Southern Europe 2. On Critical Times: Return, Repetition, and the Uncanny Present 3. Transformative Connections: Trauma, Cooperative Horizons, and Emerging Political Topographies in Athens, Greece 4. Adrift in Time: Lived and Silenced Pasts in Calabria, South Italy 5. Registering Protest: Voice, Precarity, and Return in Crisis Portugal 6. Between Inequality and Injustice: Dignity as a Motive for Mobilization During the Crisis 7. Debt, Hegemony and Heterochrony in a Sicilian City 8. The Spanish Mortgage Crisis and the Re-emergence of Moral Economics in Uncertain Times 9. Alexander’s Great Treasure: Wonder and Mistrust in Neoliberal Greece Afterword: Economic Temporalities ...

Product details

• Authors: Daniel (University of St Andrews Knight
• Assisted by: Daniel Knight (Editor), Knight Daniel (Editor), Charles Stewart (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138204577
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20457-7
• No. of pages: 154
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, Southern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters