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Vertiginous Life : An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen /

Knight, Daniel M.

Vertiginous Life : An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen / Daniel M. Knight. - 1 online resource (178 p.) - New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations ; 2 .

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION Vertigo: Temporalities and Inconstancies -- CHAPTER 1 MAIRI The Nausea of Unknowingness -- CHAPTER 2 DIMITRIS Rebuilding from Rubble -- CHAPTER 3 ANTONIS Technology and the Elsewhen -- CHAPTER 4 ALEXIA Life in Suspension -- CHAPTER 5 APHRODITE The Captivity of Chronic Crisis -- CONCLUSION Parting Shots -- EPILOGUE A Note on Crisis -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781800731943

10.1515/9781800731943 doi


Crises--Psychological aspects.--Greece
Time perception--Social aspects--Greece.
Vertigo--Greece.
SOCIAL SCIENCEĀ / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.

HN650.5.A8

303.409495