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Author(s): Felix Ringel
Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of recent politico-economic changes on contemporary experiences of time from the perspective of the future. By discussing endurance, permanence, and sustainability in Germany's fastest-shrinking city, I present a set of future-orientated practices which are post-industrial, but unexpectedly so: namely, hopeful and not subject to the widely attested phenomenon of ‘enforced presentism’. I subsequently position the temporal logics of endurance and sustainability against current academic responses to accelerated change, captured in the misleading uses of the Deleuzian concepts of emergence and becoming. My informants' epistemic investments in the future allow for a different understanding of what I describe as post-industrial temporal agency and the conflictive politics that shape these otherwise unexpected temporal relations.
Organisation(s): Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Journal: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Volume: 20
Pages: 52-70
No. of pages: 19
ISSN: 1359-0987
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12093
Publication date: 04-2014
Peer reviewed: Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012: 504017 Cultural anthropology, 509019 Futurology
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ASJC Scopus subject areas: Anthropology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Portal url: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/7209abba-6346-44f7-8b5b-9c7941146256