In the Meantime : : Toward an Anthropology of the Possible /

In the Meantime : : Toward an Anthropology of the Possible / / 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 uncertai...

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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]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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