In the Meantime

Toward an Anthropology of the Possible

Adeline Masquelier editor Deborah Durham editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Publishing:1st Jul '25

£27.95

This title is due to be published on 1st July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

In the Meantime cover

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral. Attending to the temporalities of emerging rather than settled facts, they put the stress on the temporal tactics, social commitments, material connections, dispositional orientations, and affective circuits that emerge in the meantime even in the most desperate times.

“[This volume] curates an extraordinary conversation about what it means to wait, seemingly without end, in a moment that is supposedly defined by instantaneity. The book’s timing and its framing could not be better.”• Bruce O'Neill, Saint Louis University

“This is a superb volume, on the subject of a particular temporal mode—what the editors call “the meantime”… this book is top-notch scholarship, on a cutting-edge subject that will make a significant contribution to not only anthropology but cognate fields.”• Anne Allison, Duke University

ISBN: 9781836950806

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240 pages