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