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dc.contributor.authorKnight, Daniel M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-27T19:30:04Z
dc.date.available2021-07-27T19:30:04Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-15
dc.identifier275068631
dc.identifierfb3d2d6a-1513-40cb-85b4-30632077dadc
dc.identifier.citationKnight , 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 >en
dc.identifier.issn2284-0176
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9197-983X/work/97129952
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23653
dc.description.abstractThe 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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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEtnoAntropologiaen
dc.subjectCrisisen
dc.subjectFutureen
dc.subjectSolidarityen
dc.subjectTemporalityen
dc.subjectUrgencyen
dc.subjectGN Anthropologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectACen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subjectDOAEen
dc.subject.lccGNen
dc.titleAfterword : vertiginous life and the inconstancy of becoming in the Mediterraneanen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Energy Ethicsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Social Anthropologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Cosmopolitan Studiesen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://rivisteclueb.it/riviste/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/view/360en


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