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Introduction: The time of anthropology: studies of contemporary chronopolitics and chronocracy (2020)
Book Chapter
Kirtsoglou, E., & Simpson, B. (2021). Introduction: The time of anthropology: studies of contemporary chronopolitics and chronocracy. In E. Kirtsoglou, & B. Simpson (Eds.), The time of anthropology: studies of contemporary chronopolitics (1-30). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087199-1

I do not define time, space, place and motion as being well known to all. But it must be observed that the vulgar conceive those quantities only from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of... Read More about Introduction: The time of anthropology: studies of contemporary chronopolitics and chronocracy.

Sensing late-liberal state failure: Ecologies of resistance in a post-industrial German city (2020)
Book Chapter
Ringel, F. (2020). Sensing late-liberal state failure: Ecologies of resistance in a post-industrial German city. In A. Dundon, & R. Vokes (Eds.), Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure, and Political Affect. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086673

Harbour cities smell differently: the sea mixes its own odours of fish and seaweed with the exhaust gases of heavy ships and marine industries. In one of those major seaports, the German city of Bremerhaven, my informants noticed a different smell in... Read More about Sensing late-liberal state failure: Ecologies of resistance in a post-industrial German city.

Anticipatory Nostalgia and Nomadic Temporality: A Case Study of Chronocracy in the Crypto-colony (2020)
Book Chapter
Kirtsoglou, E. (2021). Anticipatory Nostalgia and Nomadic Temporality: A Case Study of Chronocracy in the Crypto-colony. In E. Kirtsoglou, & B. Simpson (Eds.), The time of anthropology: studies of contemporary chronopolitics (159-186). Routledge

This paper expands on the view of Modern Greece as a ‘crypto-colonial’ space (cf. Herzfeld 2002). It offers an alternative reading of the so-called ‘Greek-crisis’, using the lens of chronocracy as developed in the introduction to this volume. An ethn... Read More about Anticipatory Nostalgia and Nomadic Temporality: A Case Study of Chronocracy in the Crypto-colony.

Monsoon uncertainties, Hydro-chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka (2020)
Book Chapter
Widger, T., & Wickramasinghe, U. (2021). Monsoon uncertainties, Hydro-chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka. In E. Kirtsoglou, & B. Simpson (Eds.), The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics (122-141). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087199-7

In this chapter, the authors argue that anthropological discussions of time will remain limited if alongside human time we do not also consider that which falls beyond – the expansive ecologies of time. A study of time in agricultural contexts like t... Read More about Monsoon uncertainties, Hydro-chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka.

Reconnecting epistemologies via co-design and participatory action research practice (2020)
Book Chapter
Bailey-Ross, C., Rudman, H., Kendal, J., Mursic, Z., Lloyd, A., Ross, B., & Kendal, R. (in press). Reconnecting epistemologies via co-design and participatory action research practice. In C. Hayes, J. Fulton, & K. Petrie (Eds.), Beyond disciplinarity in social research : methodologies, epistemologies and philosophies. Routledge

Soil ethnoecology (2020)
Book Chapter
Sillitoe, P. (2021). Soil ethnoecology. In T. F. Thornton, & S. Bhagwat (Eds.), Handbook of indigenous environmental knowledge : global themes and practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315270845-8

This chapter takes on the complexities in understanding the Indigenous Knowledge about soils, ‘ethnopedology’. This is a type of Indigenous Knowledge that has received relatively little attention, unlike ethnobotany or ethnozoology. The author’s rese... Read More about Soil ethnoecology.

Being “The Best Ever”: Contradictions of immobility and aspiration for boxers in Accra, Ghana (2020)
Book Chapter
Hopkinson, L. (2020). Being “The Best Ever”: Contradictions of immobility and aspiration for boxers in Accra, Ghana. In N. Besnier, D. G. Calabrò, & D. Guinness (Eds.), Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age (176-194). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429423277

Ambitions to participate in global sporting markets come hand in hand with projects of global mobility and transnational migration. However, the extreme competitiveness of sporting industries means far fewer aspiring athletes realize dreams of global... Read More about Being “The Best Ever”: Contradictions of immobility and aspiration for boxers in Accra, Ghana.

Global Entanglements of Recycling Policy and Practice (2020)
Book Chapter
Alexander, C., & Reno, J. (2020). Global Entanglements of Recycling Policy and Practice. In M. Aldenderfer (Ed.), Oxford research encyclopaedia of anthropology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.18

The landscape of global economies of recycling has rapidly changed over the early 21st century. Increasingly, policy and economic and scholarly attention on environmental transformation have focused on this topic, in keeping with Gabrielle Hecht's ch... Read More about Global Entanglements of Recycling Policy and Practice.

When the Statue is both Marble and Lime (2020)
Book Chapter
Duckworth, C., Wilson, A., Van Oyen, A., Alexander, C., Evans, J., Green, C., & Mattingley, D. (2020). When the Statue is both Marble and Lime. In C. Duckworth, & A. Wilson (Eds.), Recycling and reuse in the Roman economy (449-460). Oxford University Press

Inheriting Kinship: Norwegian Holiday Property as Relational Practice (2020)
Book Chapter
Abram, S. (2020). Inheriting Kinship: Norwegian Holiday Property as Relational Practice. In M. Holdgaard, A. Magnusdottir, & B. Selmer (Eds.), Nordic inheritance law through the ages (251-271). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004435582_013

This chapter approaches inheritance as a form of intergenerational gift, with reference to anthropological theories of exchange and kinship. In doing this, it considers a particular kind of property, the Norwegian holiday home, and the distinctive pr... Read More about Inheriting Kinship: Norwegian Holiday Property as Relational Practice.

Reflections on 'Babooning' (2020)
Book Chapter
Hill, R. (2020). Reflections on 'Babooning'. In T. Burt, & D. Thompson (Eds.), Curious about nature : a passion for fieldwork (218-222). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108552172.028

I still look back on the fieldwork I undertook for my PhD as one of the most amazing periods of my life and an opportunity I was very fortunate to experience. Arriving in late 1996, I spent 14 months living on De Hoop Nature Reserve in the Western Ca... Read More about Reflections on 'Babooning'.

Sustainable Gastronomic Tourism (2019)
Book Chapter
Corvo, P., & Fontefrancesco, M. (2019). Sustainable Gastronomic Tourism. In S. Dixit (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Gastronomic Tourism (209-216). Routledge