Sensing the Everyday

Dialogues from Austerity Greece
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-18776-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

Reihe: Theorizing Ethnography

Sensing the Everyday is a multi-sited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in the era of crisis. Blending sophisticated theoretical analyses with original ethnographic data, C. Nadia Seremetakis journeys from Greece to Vienna, Edinburgh, Albania, Ireland, and beyond. Social crisis is seen through its transnational multiplication of borders, thresholds and margins, divisions, and localities as linguistic, bodily, sensory, and performative sites of the quotidian in process. The book proposes everyday life not as a sanctuary or as a recessed zone distanced from the structural violence of the state and the market, but as a condition of im/possibility, unable to be lived as such, yet still an encapsulating habitus. There the impossibility of the quotidian is concretized as fragmentary and fragmenting material forces. Seremetakis weaves together topics as diverse as borders and bodies, history and death, the earth and the senses, language and affect, violence and public culture, the sociality of dreaming, and the spatialization of the traumatic, in a journey through antiphonic witnessing and memory. Her montage explores various ways of juxtaposing reality with the irreal and the imaginal to expose the fictioning of social reality. The book locates her approach to ethnography and the ‘native ethnographer’ in wider anthropological and philosophical debates, and proposes a dialogical interfacing of theory and practice, the translation of academic knowledge to public knowledge

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seremetakis, C. Nadia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. On Board/On Boarder 2. Dialogue/ The Dialogical 3. Theatrocracy and Memory in Austerity Times 4. Modern Cities of Silence: Disasters, Nature, and the Petrified Bodies of History 5. Wounded Borders: The Arrival of the "Barbarians" 6. Eros and Thanatos in Transnational Europe 7. Touch and Taste 8. Border Echoes 9. Divination, Media and the Networked Body of Modernity 10. A Last Word on Dreaming 11. On "Native" Ethnography in Modernity 12. Ethnopoetic Dialogues: Performing Local History 13. Performing Intercultural Translation 14. Events of Deadly Rumor: By Way of an Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

C. Nadia Seremetakis is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece. She has authored several acclaimed books and articles in English and Greek, including poetry, and has been actively engaged in public anthropology in both Europe and the USA, where she lived and taught for more than two decades.