Full Description
As we experience and manipulate time-be it as boredom or impatience-it becomes an object: something materialized and social, something that affects perception, or something that may motivate reconsideration and change. The editors and contributors to this important new book, Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality, have provided a diverse collection of ethnographic studies and theoretical explorations of youth experiencing time in a variety of contemporary socio-cultural settings. The essays in this volume focus on time as an external and often troubling factor in young people's lives, and shows how emotional unrest and violence but also creativity and hope are responses to troubling times. The chapters discuss notions of time and its and its "objectification" in diverse locales including the Georgian Republic, Brazil, Denmark and Uganda. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the essays in Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality use youth as a prism to understand time and its subjective experience.
In the series Global Youth, edited by Craig Jeffrey and Jane Dyson
Contents
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 Schneidermann
Afterword • Michael G. Flaherty Contributors Index
