Dr Felix Ringel felix.ringel@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Beyond temporality: Notes on the anthropology of time from a shrinking fieldsite
Ringel, Felix
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Abstract
With the help of ethnographic material from Germany’s fastest shrinking city, I critically engage in this paper with the term ‘temporality’. By bringing together recent insights from the anthropology of time and the future, the literature on post-socialism, and contemporary philosophical debates on the problem of presentism, I pursue a thorough re-conceptualization of time as a matter of knowledge practices. I thereby question the idea of temporality as an inherent quality of anthropology’s objects of inquiry. Beyond temporality, I urge for abandoning such temporal attributions altogether whilst scrutinizing the temporal underpinnings of our own theories and analytics, as manifested in the term post-socialism. I claim that if anthropologists, and other social scientists, want to avoid determinists’ fallacies they should acknowledge that there is, indeed, no need for temporality in their analyses.
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Ringel, F. (2016). Beyond temporality: Notes on the anthropology of time from a shrinking fieldsite. Anthropological Theory, 16(4), 390-412. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499616659971
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 27, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 14, 2016 |
Publication Date | Dec 14, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Sep 8, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 21, 2019 |
Journal | Anthropological Theory |
Print ISSN | 1463-4996 |
Electronic ISSN | 1741-2641 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 390-412 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499616659971 |
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Ringel, F. (2016). Beyond temporality: Notes on the anthropology of time from a shrinking fieldsite. Anthropological Theory, 16(4), 390–412. Copyright © 2016 Sage. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499616659971
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