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C. Nadia Seremetakis - Sensing the Everyday, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Theorizing Ethnography

Sensing the Everyday

Dialogues from Austerity Greece

Av C. Nadia Seremetakis

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Sensing the Everyday is a multi-sited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in the era of crisis. Blending sophisticated theoretical analyses with original ethnographic data, C. Nadia Seremetakis journeys from Greece to Vienna, Edinburgh, Albania, Ireland, and beyond. Social crisis is seen through its transnational multiplication of borders, thresholds and margins, divisions, and localities as linguistic, bodily, sensory, and performative sites of the quotidian in process. The book proposes everyday life not as a sanctuary or as a recessed zone distanced from the structural violence of the state and the market, but as a condition of im/possibility, unable to be lived as such, yet still an encapsulating habitus. There the impossibility of the quotidian is concretized as fragmentary and fragmenting material forces. Seremetakis weaves together topics as diverse as borders and bodies, history and death, the earth and the senses, language and affect, violence and public culture, the sociality of dreaming, and the spatialization of the traumatic, in a journey through antiphonic witnessing and memory. Her montage explores various ways of juxtaposing reality with the irreal and the imaginal to expose the fictioning of social reality. The book locates her approach to ethnography and the ‘native ethnographer’ in wider anthropological and philosophical debates, and proposes a dialogical interfacing of theory and practice, the translation of academic knowledge to public knowledge
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C. Nadia Seremetakis is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece. She has authored several acclaimed books and articles in English and Greek, including poetry, and has been actively engaged in public anthropology in both Europe and the USA, where she lived and taught for more than two decades.

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"This book is an impassioned intervention in a changing European and modern political culture. It re-enchants the everyday, the grass-roots, the familial-feminine, and the concrete in unique and important ways… and proposes a new public anthropology of broad use refocused on the sensorium that emerges from the traumatic in everyday life."Judith Farquhar, University of Chicago, USA"This book is marked by a heterogeneity of micrological ethnographic sites cut across by recurrent themes … This framework generates fascinating insights on cultural heritage as sensory archives in relation to the museumification of Greece, which is in direct communication with its current debt collapse"Allen Feldman, New York University, USA"A major work that will certainly be discussed and become a reference point for many years … This is Seremetakis at her finest."Paul Stoller, West Chester University, USA

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