Doubt, Conflict, Mediation: The Anthropology of Modern Time

Notes on contributorsIntroduction: Doubt, conflict, mediation: the anthropology of modern time (Laura Bear)Economic times1 Immanent anthropology: a comparative study of 'process' in contemporary France (Matt Hodges)2 Post-industrial times and the unexpected: endurance and sustainability in Germany's fastest-shrinking city (Fellix Ringel)3 For labour: Ajeet's accident and the ethics of technological fixes in time (Laura Bear)Political times4 Historical narrative, mundane political time, and revolutionary moments: coexisting temporalities in the lived experience of social movements (Sian Lazar)5 Rethinking reproductive politics in time, and time in UK reproductive politics: 1978-2008 (Sarah Franklin)Bureaucratic times6 The time it takes: temporalities of planning (Simone Abram)7 The reign of terror of the big cat: bureaucracy and the mediation of social times in the Indian Himalaya (Nayanika Mathur)8 A wedge of time: futures in the present and presents without futures in Maputo, Mozambique (Morten Nielsen)Index