Introduction: Hope over Time—Crisis, Immobility and Future-Making. Issue 4 (7th August 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kleist, Nauja; Jansen, Stef
• Is Part Of: History and anthropology. Volume 27:Issue 4(2016)
• Page Start: 373
• Page End: 392
• Publication Date: 2016-08-07
• Subjects: Crisis -- Hope -- (Im)mobility -- Temporality -- Uncertainty; Anthropology -- Periodicals; History -- Periodicals; 301
• DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2016.1207636
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0275-7206

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This introduction discusses the hope boom in anthropological studies, suggesting that it reflects two converging developments: a sense of increasing unpredictability and crisis, and a sense of lack of political and ideological direction in this situation. We further identify two overall trends in the anthropological literature gathered under the rubric of hope: an emphasis on hopefulness against all odds and one on specific formations of hope and temporal reasoning.