Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

Daniel M. Knight

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Vertiginous Life

An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

Daniel M. Knight

Volume 2 in the series New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800731943

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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).

Reviews

“This is groundbreaking work in all terms – ethnographically, conceptually, analytically. The kind of book that will become a classic in more than one field.” • Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Durham University

“This is an insightful and gripping account of a troubling undercurrent in Greece as depicted in the personal narratives by men and women who still struggle to build lives and livelihoods in the aftermath of the 2009 crash of the country’s state economy.” • Kathryn A. Kozaitis, Georgia State University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
INTRODUCTION Vertigo: Temporalities and Inconstancies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 MAIRI The Nausea of Unknowingness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
CHAPTER 2 DIMITRIS Rebuilding from Rubble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
CHAPTER 3 ANTONIS Technology and the Elsewhen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
CHAPTER 4 ALEXIA Life in Suspension Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
CHAPTER 5 APHRODITE The Captivity of Chronic Crisis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
CONCLUSION Parting Shots Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
EPILOGUE A Note on Crisis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 178
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Sociology

eBook

Published: September 11, 2021
ISBN: 9781800731943