Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a905299
L. Segal
ABSTRACT:This article offers a reading of contemporary life in Palestine that interrogates the braiding of hope and despair through an examination of expressions of optimism and madness in Palestinian everyday life. Whereas I neither aim to define what madness nor optimism could be taken to mean, I examine vernacular notions of how, when, and why the notion of madness is used in ordinary language, anchored in ethnographic fieldwork in occupied Palestine as well as conversations with Palestinian interlocutors over the last sixteen years. The aim being to explore the experiential and linguistic abyss between a collective feeling of Israel's occupation as a maddening force and, on the other hand, the accompanying call on part of the Palestinians to act as if it was not, the will to endure and resist being unwavering. Ultimately, I pursue the argument that the chasm between these two different pressures causes a feeling of skepticism due to the braided struggle of finding a language that can both acknowledge the occurrence of mental disorder as a consequence of the military occupation simultaneously as Palestinians carve out a space to sustain an ordinary in the wake of maddening oppression. Concludingly, I argue that gender is at the heart of how we might understand, even locate the refusal to end in Palestine—the maddening consequences intrinsic to such a refusal being the locus of my inquiry.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a905304
Ognjen Kojanić
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a905306
Eduardo Hazera
I policies were pigs, would they run “rampant” (11) like a drove of “feral” (12) swine, uprooting the picturesque plantation rows of archival orders? What if policies were “vicious” (12) Tasmanian tigers? Would they bare “fierce” (11) fangs made of file cabinets? Policies could also be botanical. But if that were the case, which plant would they be? A shrub? A tree? A medicinal herb?—it’s doubtful. But perhaps policies would resemble Queensland’s invasive rubber vine—“tangled, verdant” and “overgrown” (12)—choking the life out of “neglected” (11) ecological registries. Or are policies more humanoid? Could we imagine a tribe of pre-contact policies gathering together late at night: they encircle a “primitive” (11) spreadsheet; a witchdoctor pounds a “barbarous” (11) whiteboard; “savage” (11) signatures link arms with dotted lines, all dancing in tandem with the vibratory thump of primordial pen strokes? The whole psychedelic scene ripples with “an ambient saturation that works its way into and out of human and nonhuman lives” (12). These adjective-laden questions—which are derived from Tess Lea’s list of synonyms for the troublesome word “wild”—work with surreal aesthetics to rehash the title of Lea’s book, Wild Policy. Such surreal questions performatively reenact Lea’s introductory claim that the word “wild” describes policymaking far better than it describes Aboriginal lifeways. In this sense, the questions above extend Lea’s critical gestures. They poke fun in a serious tone. They wag their tongues at the stodgy formality of policymaking by asking surreal questions about the prehistoric mythologies of policy beings. The title of Lea’s book, reverberating with this surreal line of playful inquiry, “inverts” (12) the terminological tendencies
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a900184
Jeremy F. Walton, P. Eisenlohr, Sasha Newell
ABSTRACT:In this introduction to our special collection, we discuss the theoretical forebears that inform our guiding concept of "material temporalities" with an eye to the collection's impact on contemporary debates in anthropology and beyond. To begin, we situate "material temporalities" in relation to the temporal and material turns that have reoriented anthropology in recent years. In particular, we emphasize the dual property of material temporalities in offering affordances to and constituting forms of recalcitrance for human actors. Following this, we discuss the two orders of time, human and nonhuman, that intersect in the assemblages of material temporalities, as well as a number of key inspirations for our theorization of material temporalities—Walter Benjamin's notion of messianic time and Michel Foucault's concept of heterochrony, specifically. This discussion of human and nonhuman times supports our critique of "clock time" and its errant aspiration to an objective material basis for temporality. Following this, we offer an overview of both recent and longstanding anthropological engagements with temporality and historicity, as well as a summary of recent media studies perspectives on time and materiality, which mount a more radical intervention and critique than most anthropological arguments. We then review anthropological debates over affect and materiality in order to argue for the centrality of temporality and historicity to affective matters. Finally, we summarize the collections's three major thematic clusters—virtuality and latency, material extensions of phenomenological time, and material futures—with reference to the specific contributions.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a900194
J. Slotta
T concept of ideology has gone out of fashion in many quarters. Already in 1991, Terry Eagleton remarked on its disappearance from the writings of social theorists. Since then, turns toward affect, materiality, ontology, and the like have moved cultural anthropology and social theory even further from the discursive, representational, subjective domain of ideology. Coincidently, around the time Eagleton was remarking on the abandonment of the concept, ideology was beginning to find its legs in the field of linguistic anthropology. Since then, the study of language ideologies— people’s conceptions of language and its use—has grown to assume a central place in the field. It has not only provided a fruitful angle for approaching longstanding concerns of linguistic anthropologists, everything from the intricacies of conversational interaction to the historical transformations of languages. It has also opened up vast new terrain for research, serving as an intellectual trading zone where linguistic anthropologists draw on and contribute to scholarship on modernity, (post)coloniality, liberal democracy, neoliberal globalization, new media, religion, education, and a host of other topics. During this time, few scholars have had more of an impact on the study of language ideologies than Susan Gal and Judith T. Irvine. Their 2000 essay “Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation” is already a classic in the field. Now, with Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life, we have the culmination of their decades-long investigation into the warp and woof of language ideologies. This book will be required reading
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a900191
Navjit Kaur
T exercise, execution, and more often, defense of torture in liberal democracies by the judicial apparatus of the state has garnered much anthropological ink in contemporary writings. In engagement with this vein of thinking, Veena Das’s new book, Slum Acts, asks the reader to confront different questions. Firstly, displacing the site through which torture could be seen and “made thinkable in academic writing,” Slum Acts moves away from the bureaucratic chambers of courts, prisons, official documents, media narratives, to the more humble and marginal spaces of minor documents, vernacular writings of false convicts, and slum areas to ask in what ways margins become connected to the imaginations of global terrorism? Is it the question of adding different parts to a singular whole, a “statist logic” fueled by conspiracy theories in which Das also finds much contemporary academic writing complicit, or can an anthropological imagination delve into various scales that don’t add up to a singular whole? Das pursues these multiple tentacles spread across what she calls minor documents, the dispersed body of police in the neighborhoods of slums, and vernacular literature .Thus, the ethnographic endeavour uncovers a thick sociality of language that confronts the question of violence not as an event, which is outside the everyday life but an excessive knowledge that pervades everyday life. In a fieldwork fidelity of patient listening, Das’s ethnographic ink examines what it means to acknowledge, live, and endure this “inordinate knowledge.” Inordinate knowledge, as she rightly argues, isn’t a form of counter knowledge to “suggest contestation, resistance, or struggle,” or an ability to tell “counter stories,” a path in which Michel Foucault’s
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a900187
Leksa Lee
ABSTRACT:Local governments in China are building thousands of urban planning exhibition centers across the country. These museums and their gigantic scale models depict cities years in the future, after local infrastructure and industrial development projects have been completed. Yet exhibition industry insiders say the futures they depict are unlikely to be realized, raising the question of why local governments would invest so much in producing them. I argue that the exhibition centers and their city models are a material form of financial speculation aimed at inspiring high-level officials to fund local officials' municipal development projects. The emerging ethnography of speculation identifies it as an engagement of the future in the present that is meant to compel and inspire. Through ethnographic work on China's museum industry, I show that China's new urban planning exhibition centers are a tool of "developmental speculation:" a postsocialist, intra-governmental, political, and financial form of risk-taking that stakes claims on future economic development and that works through inspirational narrative. In the museum industry, local officials and museum production companies use material acts of modeling and design to link local initiatives to state policies, and to meld the present city with the future city in the scale models. The scale models embody past, present, and future together in one heterochronic material object. Thus, if speculation works through fantastical narratives, China's new urban planning exhibition centers are narratives modeled in material, meant to inspire higher-level officials. They are speculation materialized.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a900193
B. Kobak
I Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest, anthropologists Britt Halvorson and Joshua Reno undertake the difficult work of historicizing popular perceptions of the American Midwest in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. This presents a difficult task because, as the authors argue, there may be no swath of the country considered more ordinary and banal. And yet, despite this seeming innocence, various tropes of the region have perpetuated ideals of whiteness for centuries. Framed principally as a critical study of region, Imagining the Heartland consists of five chapters that address how the Midwest has operated as a “screen” or “stage” through which ideologies of whiteness have been reinforced at various periods of United States history (4). They consistently argue that region, like territory, is not so much a natural property of a place as it is a normative claim about who belongs (50, 152). Beyond the current caricature of the forgotten, working-class, white voter of the Trump era, they ask why this, along with other popular perceptions of the Heartland have heightened significance at the historical moment they do (23-24). The answer they offer lies in the qualities so often associated with the Midwest as banal, average, a sort of national middle. Yet, to counteract claims that the Trump era is unprecedented in its conflation of whiteness and the Midwest, Halvorson and Reno’s analyze a vast set of materials that span over a century and a half. Historical junctures that feature prominently throughout the text include native dispossession in the 19th
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a900190
Hafsa Arain
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a900192
Gebhard Keny
E Kim’s Making Peace With Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ (2022) explores what it means, conceptually and practically, to exist peacefully in a more-than-human world. While Kim’s pursuit of this question is profoundly grounded in the specificities of her fieldsite– the citizen-habitable ecologies south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)–her analysis speaks to circumstances well-beyond the Korean Peninsula and informs many timely debates across the fields of anthropology, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities. More specifically, it is a must read for those interested in the topics of territoriality, militarization, political ecology, multispecies ethnography, infrastructure, the Anthropocene, and a growing literature that emphasizes the role of nature and environmentalism in South Korean political imaginaries. Making Peace With Nature begins with what many within and beyond the Korean peninsula find to be a profound paradox: despite being one of the most heavily fortified and militarized spaces in the world, the Korean DMZ has become a site of ecological flourishment and home to a plethora of globally significant biodiversity. While Kim admits that she herself was inspired, at least in part, to conduct ethnographic fieldwork surrounding the DMZ due to intrigue associated with this paradox, her encounters with more-than-human life throughout this region lay bare both the intellectual foreclosures and physical harms associated with such framing. At its core, Kim argues, the force of this alleged paradox rests upon an ahistorical logic that holds two ostensibly universal categories in productive and harmonious tension, namely, ecology and war, which Kim further glosses as the foundational anthropological categories of nature and culture. In this way, beyond merely marking the physical extents of North and South Korea, Kim shows that the DMZ, in its myriad imagined and
E Kim的《与自然和平相处：朝鲜非军事区沿线的生态邂逅》（2022）探讨了在一个超越人类的世界中和平存在的概念和实践意义。虽然金对这个问题的追求深深植根于她的实地——朝鲜非军事区（DMZ）以南的公民居住生态——的特殊性，但她的分析反映了朝鲜半岛以外的情况，并为人类学、科学技术研究和环境人文学领域的许多及时辩论提供了信息。更具体地说，对于那些对领土性、军事化、政治生态学、多物种民族志、基础设施、人类世以及日益增长的强调自然和环保主义在韩国政治想象中的作用的文学感兴趣的人来说，这是一本必读的书。《与自然和平相处》始于朝鲜半岛内外的许多人发现的一个深刻的悖论：尽管朝鲜非军事区是世界上防御和军事化程度最高的地区之一，但它已成为生态繁荣的地方，也是大量具有全球意义的生物多样性的家园。尽管金承认，由于与这一悖论相关的阴谋，她自己至少在一定程度上受到了启发，在非军事区周围进行了人种学实地调查，但她在整个地区遇到的不仅仅是人类的生活，暴露了与这种框架相关的智识丧失和身体伤害。金认为，这种所谓悖论的核心在于一种非历史逻辑，这种逻辑在生产和和谐的张力中包含两个表面上普遍的类别，即生态和战争，金进一步将其作为自然和文化的人类学基础类别。通过这种方式，除了标记朝鲜和韩国的实际范围外，金还表明，非军事区在其无数想象和
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