This article investigates the temporalities of ‘getting by’ amidst the ripple effects of economic deterioration in Volos, Greece. Through the case of Kalypso and her family, I argue for a relational framework in the study of temporal practices, and then discuss the significant material relations of the family. Faced with less than half of their previous income, Kalypso runs a general budget pool via e-banking that allows her to coordinate the temporal constraints of periodic and everyday bills. The effect is a drifting apart of temporal experiences in the family as well as tensions about the future. Temporal agency is shown to reside in the modalities of social relations and in corresponding practices.
{"title":"Stretching Money to Pay the Bills: Temporal Modalities and Relational Practices of ‘Getting By’ in the Greek Economic Crisis","authors":"A. Streinzer","doi":"10.3167/CA.2016.340106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2016.340106","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the temporalities of ‘getting by’ amidst the ripple effects of economic deterioration in Volos, Greece. Through the case of Kalypso and her family, I argue for a relational framework in the study of temporal practices, and then discuss the significant material relations of the family. Faced with less than half of their previous income, Kalypso runs a general budget pool via e-banking that allows her to coordinate the temporal constraints of periodic and everyday bills. The effect is a drifting apart of temporal experiences in the family as well as tensions about the future. Temporal agency is shown to reside in the modalities of social relations and in corresponding practices.","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"116 1","pages":"45-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87680705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tricking Time, Overthrowing a Regime: Reining in the Future in the Yemeni Youth Revolution","authors":"Ross Porter","doi":"10.3167/CA.2016.340107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2016.340107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"50 1","pages":"58-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74242228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drawing on primary ethnographic research, this paper explores the intermeshing of different forms of time in contemporary childbirth, including the ways in which pregnant women are embedded within, informed by, and resist institutional categorizations of reproductive time. While each parturient who participated in my study described their own, unique relationships with birthing and time, all women employed clock-time to anchor critical phases of their labour. My analysis leads me to propose the concept of `phenomenological time´ as a means of capturing the embodied outcome of the complex, entwined relationships amongst the social and institutional time which each woman inhabits, her own individual, underlying physiology, and her ongoing psycho-social response throughout the birthing experience. My analysis suggests that further phenomenological studies of birth could lead to a more sophisticated understanding of the relationships between human beings and time including, alternative temporal forms such a multitemporality and `reverse progression´ during labour.
{"title":"‘But Isn’t It the Baby That Decides When It Will Be Born?’: Temporality and Women’s Embodied Experiences of Giving Birth","authors":"Joanna White","doi":"10.3167/CA.2016.340108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2016.340108","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on primary ethnographic research, this paper explores the intermeshing of different forms of time in contemporary childbirth, including the ways in which pregnant women are embedded within, informed by, and resist institutional categorizations of reproductive time. While each parturient who participated in my study described their own, unique relationships with birthing and time, all women employed clock-time to anchor critical phases of their labour. My analysis leads me to propose the concept of `phenomenological time´ as a means of capturing the embodied outcome of the complex, entwined relationships amongst the social and institutional time which each woman inhabits, her own individual, underlying physiology, and her ongoing psycho-social response throughout the birthing experience. My analysis suggests that further phenomenological studies of birth could lead to a more sophisticated understanding of the relationships between human beings and time including, alternative temporal forms such a multitemporality and `reverse progression´ during labour.","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"54 1","pages":"72-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88569030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
what happens in a typical live aboard anchorage and why you might want to consider calling one home for a season or several. Many sailboat owners avoid marina’s and choose to spend the winter in one location at one anchorage, such as The Bahamas and the summer at another – perhaps the north east coast of America. Some boaters are chasing perfect climates and others are working towards finding the best place to live taking into consideration the hurricane, typhoon or cyclone season. Itinerant boat-dwellers (‘boaters’) on the waterways of London speak about their lives as occurring in a time zone that is separate from the sedentary world around them. ‘Boat time’, as boaters call it, is simultaneously slow and unpredictable. The slow aspect of boat time is said to provide a much-needed contrast to the fast and highly choreographed movements of the city surrounding the towpaths. It becomes part of the boaters’ rhetoric of difference from, and resistance to, the state and other sedentary elements surrounding them. This article suggests that temporal experiences are a constitutive part of identity, a strategic component of resistance to the sedentary order, and a thread that links the disparate aspects of boaters’ own lives aboard. ‘Time Is Like a Soup’
{"title":"‘Time Is Like a Soup’: Boat Time and the Temporal Experience of London’s Liveaboard Boaters","authors":"Benjamin O. L. Bowles","doi":"10.3167/CA.2016.340110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2016.340110","url":null,"abstract":"what happens in a typical live aboard anchorage and why you might want to consider calling one home for a season or several. Many sailboat owners avoid marina’s and choose to spend the winter in one location at one anchorage, such as The Bahamas and the summer at another – perhaps the north east coast of America. Some boaters are chasing perfect climates and others are working towards finding the best place to live taking into consideration the hurricane, typhoon or cyclone season. Itinerant boat-dwellers (‘boaters’) on the waterways of London speak about their lives as occurring in a time zone that is separate from the sedentary world around them. ‘Boat time’, as boaters call it, is simultaneously slow and unpredictable. The slow aspect of boat time is said to provide a much-needed contrast to the fast and highly choreographed movements of the city surrounding the towpaths. It becomes part of the boaters’ rhetoric of difference from, and resistance to, the state and other sedentary elements surrounding them. This article suggests that temporal experiences are a constitutive part of identity, a strategic component of resistance to the sedentary order, and a thread that links the disparate aspects of boaters’ own lives aboard. ‘Time Is Like a Soup’","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"36 1","pages":"100-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78025611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The consequences of prolonged fiscal austerity have left people in Trikala, central Greece, with feelings of intense temporal vertigo: confusion and anxiety about where and when they belong in overarching timelines of pasts and futures. Some people report feeling ‘thrown back in time’ to past eras of poverty and suffering, while others discuss their experiences of the current crisis situation as reliving multiple moments of the past assembled in the present. This article analyses how locals understand their complex experiences of time and temporality, and promotes the accommodation of messy narratives of time that can otherwise leave the researcher feeling sea-sick.
{"title":"Temporal Vertigo and Time Vortices on Greece’s Central Plain","authors":"Daniel M. Knight","doi":"10.3167/CA.2016.340105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2016.340105","url":null,"abstract":"The consequences of prolonged fiscal austerity have left people in Trikala, central Greece, \u0000with feelings of intense temporal vertigo: confusion and anxiety about where and when \u0000they belong in overarching timelines of pasts and futures. Some people report feeling \u0000‘thrown back in time’ to past eras of poverty and suffering, while others discuss their \u0000experiences of the current crisis situation as reliving multiple moments of the past \u0000assembled in the present. This article analyses how locals understand their complex \u0000experiences of time and temporality, and promotes the accommodation of messy \u0000narratives of time that can otherwise leave the researcher feeling sea-sick.","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"118 1","pages":"32-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74895775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Multitemporality with Houses: Time Trickery, Ethical Practice and Energy Demand in Postcolonial Britain","authors":"Roxana Morosanu","doi":"10.3167/CA.2016.340111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2016.340111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"264 1","pages":"113-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75115974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intimate Publics, Public Intimacies: Natural Limits, Creation and the Culture of Mahremiyet in Turkey","authors":"Sertaç Sehlikoglu","doi":"10.3167/CA.2015.330207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2015.330207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"30 1","pages":"77-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74952642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intimacy and Belonging in Cuban Tourism and Migration","authors":"Valerio Simoni","doi":"10.3167/CA.2015.330204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2015.330204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"3 1","pages":"26-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79780363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labours of Inter-religious Tolerance: Cultural and Spatial Intimacy in Croatia and Turkey","authors":"Jeremy F. Walton","doi":"10.3167/CA.2015.330206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2015.330206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"8 1","pages":"59-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77173278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The multiplicity of meanings that have been attributed to intimacy are both a weakness and a strength: a weakness because of the indeterminacy with which the category is used; a strength because it allows us to explore the relationship between its various meanings, and through this exploration address theoretically important questions. While it is commonly conflated with sexuality, intimacy concerns a considerably broader range of aspects of human life, which only an ethnographically founded approach can help us understand. Because of its indexical qualities, intimacy cannot be understood devoid of the context that gives it meaning.
{"title":"Commentary: Intimacy through the Ethnographic Lens","authors":"N. Besnier","doi":"10.3167/CA.2015.330209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2015.330209","url":null,"abstract":"The multiplicity of meanings that have been attributed to intimacy are both a weakness and a strength: a weakness because of the indeterminacy with which the category is used; a strength because it allows us to explore the relationship between its various meanings, and through this exploration address theoretically important questions. While it is commonly conflated with sexuality, intimacy concerns a considerably broader range of aspects of human life, which only an ethnographically founded approach can help us understand. Because of its indexical qualities, intimacy cannot be understood devoid of the context that gives it meaning.","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"1 1","pages":"106-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81532874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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