6 The time it takes: temporalities of planning

S Abram - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
State planning has been a defining means for modern subjects to regulate the passage of
time. In practice, it is the focus of multiple conflicts and doubts, which planners attempt to …

The culling: Pandemic, gerocide, generational affect

L Cohen - Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Old age has been central to public health rationalities and contestations of the 2019–2020
coronavirus pandemic. This article thinks through what age is and does in pandemic times …

Speculative futures at the bottom of the pyramid

C Dolan, D Rajak - Journal of the Royal Anthropological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Celebrated as creative, flexible catalysts of inclusive capitalism, urban youth are central to
bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BoP) models of development, which set out to repurpose the …

[图书][B] Christian globalism at home: child sponsorship in the United States

H Kaell - 2020 - books.google.com
" Keynote This book explores the deep history and contemporary workings of the popular US
Christian practice of" sponsoring" a child abroad. Capsule This book explores the deep …

Technological indeterminacy: medium, threat, temporality

MJA De Abreu - Anthropological Theory, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
For some time now technological determinism, a theory that, broadly speaking, explains the
relation between technology and humans in terms of historical causation, has been the …

Speculative fields: Property in the shadow of post-conflict Colombia

ML Morris - Cultural Anthropology, 2019 - journal.culanth.org
In Colombia's attempts to bring its decades-long conflict to a close, the state engaged in a
broad endeavor to bring about a new era: the “post-conflict.” Land restitution, which aims to …

Afterword: Thoughts on Governance, Punctuation and Authoritarian Populism

MJ de Abreu - The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2023 - berghahnjournals.com
Inspired by key concerns of this collective project, this afterword article highlights two main
aspects in the discussion of governance through suspension. The first aspect is how …

Desk, firm, God, country: proprietary trading and the speculative ethos of financialism

R Wosnitzer - 2014 - search.proquest.com
In 2009, in the wake of the global financial crisis, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Bank Paul Volcker proposed a ban on capital markets proprietary trading by the nation's …

Apathy and revolution

L Højer - Recovering the human subject: Freedom, creativity and …, 2018 - books.google.com
In 2011, I went on a picnic at the Tuul River, about 30 kilometres east of Ulaanbaatar, the
capital of Mongolia, with some of my Mongolian friends. It was a family trip and drinking …

God and greed: money and meditation in Karachi's marketplace

N Baig - 2014 - repositories.lib.utexas.edu
The dissertation focuses on the shaping of merchants' subjectivity in Karachi's contemporary
marketplace. It does this by placing human experience within the matrix of the cosmological …