Time and the other in crisis
How anthropology makes its displaced object
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Ramsay (0000-0001-8323-0626, University of Delaware, USA; Macquarie University, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 385-413 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1463499619840464 |
| OpenAlex | W2944010594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 122 |
| References cited | 104 |
Displacement is typically approached in anthropology as an exceptional experience that is associated with refugees and forced migration. Recent representations of a migration 'crisis' have reinforced the exceptionality attached to displacement. Drawing on research conducted with people in both refugee and non-refugee contexts, in this article I put forward a more expansive theorisation of displacement as a sense of temporal dispossession. Additionally, I describe how, by characterising refugees and other migrants as people who occupy a temporality that is distinguished by their migration status, anthropology denies coevalness with and between migrants and non-migrants and thereby reinforces the very logics of otherness that we might otherwise seek to critique. Recognising the shared temporal rhythms of displacement, and how these manifest broadly as the effects of global capitalism and neoliberal restructurings, is one way through which anthropologists can strengthen our analyses and critiques of bordering structures. We must firmly situate refugees and migrants within these shared rhythms of displacement, rather than exceptionalise them through the lens of 'crisis
Capitalism · Displaced person · Displacement (psychology · Epistemology · Expansive · Forced migration · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Psychoanalysis · Refugee · Refugee crisis · Sociology · Temporality · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Psychology
Displaced lives in the Americas. A review of three cross-border ethnographies
Preface
Lafia T.
Conclusion
Life storytelling as Black and feminist political practice
Family affairs – an intergenerational approach to diaspora
Aminata Camara
A history of African diaspora in Germany
Introduction
Epilogue
Conclusion to Part II
Growing up in Frankfurt
Oxana Chi and Layla Zami
Conclusion to Part III
Racism and its intersection with class and gender
Maya B.
Conclusion to Part I
Countdown
Temporary Lives
The role of time for refugees’ work
Mapping Brussels' Displaced Housing Ecosystem
Temporally displaced and dispossessed
‘Plenty of Time, Out of Time’. Plurality of Timing in the Italian Asylum Reception System. Outcomes from the Field
Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration
Maniau, kad išvykstu dviem savaitėms“
Do granic” – rozważania o podmiocie, nie-miejscu i niepewności
Into the unknown
Longing for Something Better
Imperial Abandonment
Vulnerable homes on the move
The Other Side of the Border
“Unsure whether it feels like home anymore”
“All we need is a home”
In search of legal stability
“Mothering practices in times of legal precarity
Reimagining Nativeness from a Migrant Anthropologist’s Positionality
Displacement at seascapes
Legal precarity, migrant mothering and the space of hesitation in Paris
Towards inclusive urban transitions
Anti-sedentarism and the anthropology of forced migration
Existential Kinetics of Movement and Stasis
Transgender migration and displacement
Closeted Labor
The eviction room
Phenomenology of Exclusion
Continual arrival and the longue durée
Five-Star Humanitarianism? Navigating Gulf Aid in the Aftermath of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan
Life Is Tight Here’
Coping in Precarity
Forced displacement in Ukraine
When the World Turns Upside Down, Live Like a Bat!’ Idioms of Suffering, Coping, and Resilience Among Elderly Female Zande Refugees in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda (2019–20)
Temporal dispossession through migration bureaucracy
Futures in post-displacement Italy
The prism of new mobilities. The mobility trajectories of refugees and asylum seekers outside the Italian reception system
Waste of Time Is Worse Than Death
Out of sync
Living in Permanent Temporariness
Accumulated Homelessness
Temporalnost humanitarne skrbi
Living, that’s what we do’
Ceuta
Aligning migrant–plant temporalities
Embodying legal precarity
The Migration–Development Nexus Revisited
Rohingya refugees in Klang Valley, Malaysia
Toward ‘multiplied displacement’
Crisis that spans a lifetime (and beyond)
There is No Fixed time’
Navigating tourism
Navigating citizenship and motherhood in and beyond Berlin
The business of anthropology and the European refugee regime
A ‘temporal turn’? Proposing time as method
Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe
Rethinking refugee surplus populations
If You Wanna Go Fast You Go Alone, If You Wanna Go Far You Go Together
Climate change adaptation as social navigation
Migration and the racialised politics of desire
Introduzione
Toward Refugee Inclusion in Livelihood Policies
Migration Control and Access to Welfare
Afrodiasporic Identities in Germany
A stage of limbo
Infrastructural clashes
Time and mobility/immobility
The promised futures of military protection
Who Feels Safe? Uncertain Futures and Enduring Aspirations in Italy
Assembling traces of border violence. Counter-mapping as counter-archiving
Condición liminal de migrantes en Tapachula, Chiapas, México
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin
Digitally Mobile Swedes and Their Experiences
Entrepreneurship-As-Struggle
Refugee-Ness and Exploitation
Comunidades en espera
Shades of protracted displacement
Regeneration, predatory inclusion, and migrant experiences in declining rural areas in Spain and Germany
Here for Now
Refuge, Return, Repeat
Malicious Game
Aspired communities
Cruel Optimism
Life Lived in Relief
Being-Here
Refugees and Exile
Writing Culture
A Sense for the Other
Navigating Austerity
Anti-Crisis
'Illegal' Traveller
Recapturing anthropology
The Forest of Symbols
Modernity at large
Time and the Other
Cruel Optimism
Altogether Elsewhere
Capital
Driving after Class
Precarious Lives
Anthropological Locations
Impossible Refuge
Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism
Making Refuge
Precarious Japan
Spaces of Global Capitalism
Beyond “Culture”
“And When I Become a Man”
The price of impact
Living an Uncertain Future
Governing through Uncertainty
Flight and Exile—Uncertainty in the Context of Conflict-Induced Displacement
Repossession
Homo Sacer
Active Waiting and Changing Hopes
The New Imperialism
A dying village
Zombie trouble
Precarity in Exile
What Is a Refugee Camp? Explorations of the Limits and Effects of the Camp
Evicted. Poverty and profit in the American city
Critique and Crisis
Crisis, What Crisis? Immigrants, Refugees, and Invisible Struggles
In Search of Respect
The Social Life of Things
Ethnographies of Austerity
The “migrant crisis” as racial crisis
Time and the Migrant Other
National Geographic
Phenomenology of Perception
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Incomplete Inclusion
The first climate refugees? Contesting global narratives of climate change in Tuvalu
Migrants and City-MakingDispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration
Treading water
Waiting in the asylum determination process
Deportation Studies
Out of Time
Still 'migrants' after all those years
Deportation, Anxiety, Justice
Regimes of Mobility Across the Globe
Ordinary Refugees
Toward the anthropology of white nationalist postracialism
Siting Culture
Humanitarian Reason
Purity and Exile
The Land of Open Graves
Theorising Transnational Migration in Our Times
Speechless Emissaries
Prophecy and the near future
Grounding displacement
Why Katrina's Victims Aren't Refugees
The Precarious Present
Philiaandphagia
Incommensurable Futures and Displaced Lives
In the Lowly Nowherevilles of Liquid Modernity
Between War and City
Motion squared
Rethinking time's arrow
The other revisited
Migrant Narratives and Ethnographic Tropes
Time as Technique
Historicity and Anthropology
Trump's election and the "white working class"
État de siège
Immobilizing mobility
Representing the "European refugee crisis" in Germany and beyond
Immanent anthropology
Doubt, conflict, mediation
Beyond the suffering subject
The Crisis in Crisis
Presence and Representation
Situating identities
There is no Future in Humanitarianism
Reaction, Experimentation, and Refusal
Towards a new politics of migration
Placing Displacement
Crisis and Chronicity
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| Citations per year | 17,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 121 |