Sensing the everyday : dialogues from austerity Greece / C. Nadia Seremetakis.

By:

Seremetakis, C. Nadia (Constantina Nadia) [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Theorizing ethnographyPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.Description: xiii, 249 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780367187767
9780367187743

Subject(s):

Anthropology -- Philosophy

DDC classification:

301.01

Contents:

Part I: Interfaces 1. On Board/On Boarder 2. Dialogue/ The Dialogical Part II: Death Drives in the City 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 Part III: Senses Revisited 7. Touch and Taste 8. Border Echoes Part IV: Sensing the Invisible 9. Divination, Media and the Networked Body of Modernity 10. A Last Word on Dreaming Part V: Borders of Translatability 11. On "Native" Ethnography in Modernity 12. Ethnopoetic Dialogues: Performing Local History 13. Performing Intercultural Translation Part VI: The Violence of the Lettered 14. Events of Deadly Rumor: By Way of an Epilogue:

Summary: "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 Serematakis 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 fo 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." -- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	301.01 SER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010840		Placas, Aimee

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 Serematakis 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 fo 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." -- Publisher's description.