In the Meantime : : Toward an Anthropology of the Possible / / ed. by Adeline Masquelier, Deborah Durham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Bastian, Misty L.,; Drury, Mark,; Durham, Deborah,; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland,; Frederiksen, Martin Demant,; Kwon, June Hee,; Masquelier, Adeline,; McCoy-Torres, Sabia,; Meiu, George Paul,; O’Hare, Ann M.,; Santoro, Daniella,; Taylor, Janelle S.,; Ulfstjerne, Michael Alexander,
• HerausgeberIn: Durham, Deborah,; Masquelier, Adeline,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. Minding the Gap in the Meantime --; Chapter 1. “Just Waiting”: Korean Chinese Mobility and Immobility in Transnational Migration --; Chapter 2. In the Meanplace: Traversing Boom and Bust in China’s High Growth/Ghost Town --; Entretemps. “A Lot of Standing Around in the Dark”: Specters of Waiting in Paranormal Research --; Chapter 3. Raising Consciousness in the Costa Rican Seasonal Low --; Chapter 4. Stranded in Decolonization: The Attritional Temporality of Sahrawi Activism in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara --; Entretemps. Machine-Made Time: Dialysis and the Complexities of Waiting and Planning --; Chapter 5. Waiting for Thieves: Nighttime Capital and the Labor of Sitting in Niger --; Chapter 6. Waiting to Heal in “Crip Time”: Temporalities of Chronic Skin Wounds among Gunshot Survivors in New Orleans --; Entretemps. Urgency, Boredom, and Pandemic Mean/Time(s) --; Chapter 7. African Time, Waiting, and Deadlines in Botswana --; Chapter 8. Waiting Out the Rush: On the Durability of Wealth in Kenya’s Coastal Sex Economies --; Afterword. 219 In Slow Time --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800738874; 9783110997705
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800738874
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Adeline Masquelier, Deborah Durham.

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral. Attending to the temporalities of emerging rather than settled facts, they put the stress on the temporal tactics, social commitments, material connections, dispositional orientations, and affective circuits that emerge in the meantime even in the most desperate times.