Overview

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.

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Author:   Adeline Masquelier ,  Deborah Durham
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800738867

ISBN 10:   1800738862
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: In the Meantime Adeline Masquelier and Deborah Durham Chapter 1. “Just Waiting”: Korean Chinese Mobility and Immobility in Transnational Migration June Hee Kwon Chapter 2. In the Meanplace: Traversing Boom and Bust in China’s High Growth/Ghost Town Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne Entretemps: “A Lot of Standing Around in the Dark”: Specters of Waiting in Paranormal Research Misty L. Bastian Chapter 3. Raising Consciousness in the Costa Rican Seasonal Low Sabia McCoy-Torres Chapter 4. Stranded in Decolonization: The Attritional Temporality of Sahrawi Activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara Mark Drury Entretemps: Machine-Made Time: Dialysis and the Complexities of Waiting and Planning Janelle S. Taylor and Ann M. O’Hare Chapter 5. Waiting for Thieves: Nighttime Capital and the Labor of Sitting in Niger Adeline Masquelier Chapter 6. Waiting to Heal in “Crip Time”: Temporalities of Chronic Skin Wounds amongst Gunshot Survivors in New Orleans Daniella Santoro Entretemps: Urgency, Boredom and Pandemic Mean/Time(s) Martin Demant Frederiksen Chapter 7. African Time,Waiting, and Deadlines in Botswana Deborah Durham Chapter 8. Waiting Out the Rush: On the Durability of Wealth in Kenya’s Coastal Sex Economies George Paul Meiu Afterword: In Slow Time Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Reviews

[This volume] curates an extraordinary conversation about what it means to wait, seemingly without end, in a moment that is supposedly defined by instantaneity. The book's timing and its framing could not be better. * Bruce O'Neill, Saint Louis University This is a superb volume, on the subject of a particular temporal mode-what the editors call the meantime ... this book is top-notch scholarship, on a cutting-edge subject that will make a significant contribution to not only anthropology but cognate fields. * Anne Allison, Duke University

""[This volume] curates an extraordinary conversation about what it means to wait, seemingly without end, in a moment that is supposedly defined by instantaneity. The book's timing and its framing could not be better."" - Bruce O'Neill, Saint Louis University ""This is a superb volume, on the subject of a particular temporal mode-what the editors call ""the meantime""... this book is top-notch scholarship, on a cutting-edge subject that will make a significant contribution to not only anthropology but cognate fields."" - Anne Allison, Duke University

[This volume] curates an extraordinary conversation about what it means to wait, seemingly without end, in a moment that is supposedly defined by instantaneity. The manuscript's timing and its framing could not be better. * Bruce O'Neill, Saint Louis University This is a superb volume, on the subject of a particular temporal mode-what the editors call the meantime ... this book is top-notch scholarship, on a cutting-edge subject that will make a significant contribution to not only anthropology but cognate fields. * Anne Allison, Duke University

“[This volume] curates an extraordinary conversation about what it means to wait, seemingly without end, in a moment that is supposedly defined by instantaneity. The book’s timing and its framing could not be better.” • Bruce O'Neill, Saint Louis University “This is a superb volume, on the subject of a particular temporal mode—what the editors call “the meantime”… this book is top-notch scholarship, on a cutting-edge subject that will make a significant contribution to not only anthropology but cognate fields.” • Anne Allison, Duke University

Author Information

Deborah Durham teaches at the University of Virginia. She conducts research in Botswana and Turkey. She is the co-editor of Youth, and Elusive Adulthoods: The Anthropology of New Maturities (Indiana, 2017). She is an Editor at Hau Books and is Deputy Editor for Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory.

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