Temporal vertigo and time vortices on Greece’s Central Plain
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01/03/2016Author
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Abstract
The consequences of prolonged fiscal austerity have left people in Trikala, central Greece, with feelings of intense temporal vertigo: confusion and anxiety about where and when they belong in overarching timelines of pasts and futures. Some people report feeling ‘thrown back in time’ to past eras of poverty and suffering, while others discuss their experiences of the current crisis situation as reliving multiple moments of the past assembled in the present. This article analyses how locals understand their complex experiences of time and temporality, and promotes the accommodation of messy narratives of time that can otherwise leave the researcher feeling sea-sick.
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Knight , D M 2016 , ' Temporal vertigo and time vortices on Greece’s Central Plain ' , Cambridge Journal of Anthropology , vol. 34 , no. 1 , pp. 32-44 . https://doi.org/10.3167/ca.2016.340105
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Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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Peer reviewed
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0305-7674Type
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Copyright © 2016, Berghahn This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ca.2016.340105
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