The Confines of Time: On the Ebbing Away of Futures in Sierra Leone and Palestine
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The Confines of Time : On the Ebbing Away of Futures in Sierra Leone and Palestine. / Jefferson, Andrew; Segal, Lotte Buch.
I: Ethnos, Bind 84, Nr. 1, 02.01.2019, s. 96-112.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Confines of Time
T2 - On the Ebbing Away of Futures in Sierra Leone and Palestine
AU - Jefferson, Andrew
AU - Segal, Lotte Buch
PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - This article contributes to an understanding of the existential character of confinement by directing attention to the interlinked concepts of tiredness and foreboding. Through juxtaposition and analysis of material gathered among people whose lives are lived under compromised circumstances in Sierra Leone and Palestine we illuminate the way time - not only space - confines. Our analytical concern is with the way in which futures are anticipated by people confined in space and time, where conditions of possibility are materially and sometimes corporeally suffocating. To anticipate fragile futures, or to mourn futures terminated early is exhausting. Tiredness, from this perspective, is a ubiquitous and overwhelming sentiment suffusing what it means to live in confining sites. It is an expression of foreboding understood as a 'being towards death' (Stevenson 2014).
AB - This article contributes to an understanding of the existential character of confinement by directing attention to the interlinked concepts of tiredness and foreboding. Through juxtaposition and analysis of material gathered among people whose lives are lived under compromised circumstances in Sierra Leone and Palestine we illuminate the way time - not only space - confines. Our analytical concern is with the way in which futures are anticipated by people confined in space and time, where conditions of possibility are materially and sometimes corporeally suffocating. To anticipate fragile futures, or to mourn futures terminated early is exhausting. Tiredness, from this perspective, is a ubiquitous and overwhelming sentiment suffusing what it means to live in confining sites. It is an expression of foreboding understood as a 'being towards death' (Stevenson 2014).
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - confinement
KW - endurance
KW - foreboding
KW - future
KW - Palestine
KW - Sierra Leone
U2 - 10.1080/00141844.2018.1548497
DO - 10.1080/00141844.2018.1548497
M3 - Journal article
VL - 84
SP - 96
EP - 112
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
SN - 0014-1844
IS - 1
ER -
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