ANT3120 A – Applied Anthropology

Nineteenth Class Meeting, November 21, 2017

Alex Enkerli, aenkerli@uOttawa.ca

School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies

University of Ottawa

Project Sharing

Ask or Tell

  • Help you can get
  • Insight you can share

Time Management

Time-Tracking

Four Exercises

  • Deborrah: House cleaning

  • Laura: Tying shoes

  • Matthew: Working with a text

  • Rowan: Grocery

Exercise Notes

  • Time and money

  • Productivity

  • Social power

  • Procrastination

Text Notes

  • Adie: Whipp

  • Deborrah: (Risk assessment)

  • Laura: Greener

  • Matthew: Mancini

Anthropology of Time

Bear, Laura (2016) “Time as Technique”, Annual Review of Anthropology 45(1): 487–502. http://lar.me/timeastechnique

Bear 2016

  • Austerity

  • Bureaucracy 

  • Techne (techniques)
  • Episteme (knowledges)
  • phronesis (ethics)

  • Capitalist modernity

  • Boelstorff leisure/work

  • Chong ERP

  • Securitization

  • Urgency

  • Agency

  • Non-linear time

  • Time-tricking

  • Billable time

  • Knowledge work

  • Attention economy

Action Items

Nineteenth Text Note

  • Project out of text

  • Backtracking

  • In author’s shoes

Nineteenth Exercise

  • Followup
  • Where are they now?
  • Closure
  • Moving on
  • Leaving the field

ANT3120 Nineteenth Class Meeting

By Alexandre Enkerli

ANT3120 Nineteenth Class Meeting

Slides for the nineteenth class meeting in the ANT3120 Applied Anthropology course taught by Alex Enkerli at University of Ottawa.

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