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Temporalities In Ethnographic Fieldwork: Dealing With Past And Future In The European Crisis, Daniel Knight, Elizabeth Krause, Susana E. Narotzky, Sofia Kalo, Alyssa Maraj Grahame, Eleanor Marie Finley, Massimo Bressan, Frances Pine

CHESS Conference Panels

The panel addresses the theme of the “familiar/strange” from the spatial and temporal perspectives as it emerges in crisisridden Europe. Many people in Europe had incorporated the expectations of economic growth and welfare as the political expression of a postWorld War II expansion of citizenship entitlements superseding violent confrontation between nations and classes. The aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and the intensification of structural adjustment policies have resulted in an ambivalent understanding of the present experience. While some perceive it as a breakdown of political, social and economic promises and expectations, stressing the “strangeness” of the new situation, others …