Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality

Anne Line Dalsgaard is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark, and author of Matters of Life and Longing: Female Sterilization in Northeast Brazil. Martin Demant Frederiksen is External Lecturer in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and author of Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia (Temple). Susanne HØjlund is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark, and author of Barndomskonstruktioner. PÅ feltarbejde i skole, sygehus og SFO(Childhood Constructions). Lotte Meinert is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark, and author of Hopes in Friction: Schooling, Health and Everyday Life in Uganda.

• Introduction: Time Objectified• Martin Demant Frederiksen and Anne Line Dalsgård   1. Waiting for the start: Flexibility and the Question of Convergence• Jennifer Johnson-Hanks 2. Stunted Future: Buryong among Young Men in Manila• Steffen Jensen 3. Aske's Dead Time: An Exploration of the Qualities of Time among Left-Radical Activists in Denmark• Stine Krøijer 4. Heterochronic Atmospheres: Affect, Materiality, and Youth in Depression• Martin Demant Frederiksen 5. Standing Apart: On Time, Affect, and Discernment in Nordeste, Brazil• Anne Line Dalsgård 6. Certificates for the Future: Geographical Mobility and Educational Trajectories among Nepalese Youth• Karen Valentin 7. The normativity of Boredom: Communication Media Use among Romanian Teenagers• Razvan Nicolescu 8. Making a Name: Young Musicians in Uganda Working on the Future• Lotte Meinert and Nanna SchneidermannAfterword • Michael G. Flaherty Contributors Index