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Afterword : vertiginous life and the inconstancy of becoming in the Mediterranean

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15/07/2021
Author
Knight, Daniel M.
Keywords
Crisis
Future
Solidarity
Temporality
Urgency
GN Anthropology
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Abstract
The socio-historical nexus that is topologically interwoven throughout the Mediterranean region provides the background for a comparative framework for capturing the dizzying affects of precarious life in the 21st century. The conceptual triad of uncertainty, resilience, and futures is key to presenting life on the vertiginous “edge” as people tackle crises in Greece, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and Tunisia. Standing on the brink of time and of history-making, people face a decision of whether to cling by their fingernails to former lives, former Selves, or to take the plunge into the vortex of uncertain becoming. Here I argue that such world-changing moments should be contextualised through an acknowledgement of academic and historical lineages to better package so-called “unprecedented” events. More potently, I further propose that times of uncertainty influence how people orient to the future where a sense of urgency penetrates the normalised social fabric triggering a form of affective vertigo. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures, manifested as disorientation and dizziness where pathways to becoming have altered dramatically.
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Knight , D M 2021 , ' Afterword : vertiginous life and the inconstancy of becoming in the Mediterranean ' , EtnoAntropologia , vol. 9 , no. 1 , pp. 119-126 . < http://rivisteclueb.it/riviste/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/view/360 >
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EtnoAntropologia
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2284-0176
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © the author. Open Access. This journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0 (CC-BY). This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the final version of the papers. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s).
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http://rivisteclueb.it/riviste/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/view/360
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23653

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