Crisis: Social Suffering and Temporality
(Run by Charles Stewart, Coco Kanters, Josh Burraway and Daniel M. Knight)
First MEETING: Friday 12th October, 2-4pm, Gordon Sq. 16-18, Room B10
More than ever issues of time and temporality are brought into anthropological focus. The global economic crisis has triggered substantial research into issues of time, temporality and social suffering as actors recount distant events to comprehend contemporary social turmoil. In periods of crisis, some past events possess contemporary qualities, facilitated by collective memory, objects and artefacts, nationalist rhetoric and education systems. By embodying culturally proximate historical events people critique current economic systems, assisting the negotiation of crisis experience.
This reading group will explore complex issues of polytemporality, temporal paradoxes, social memory, embodiment, and topologies of time. It further asks why at this specific moment temporality and time should be the focus
