ANT3120 A – Applied Anthropology

Twentieth Class Meeting, November 24, 2017

Alex Enkerli, aenkerli@uOttawa.ca

School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies

University of Ottawa

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

Sphere of Agency

“In an Ideal World…”

  • Think of the society in which you would like to live
  • What could help us get there?
  • What role do you personally play in that society?

Exercise and Text Note

Following Projects

Exercises

  • Everett: Photo Zine
  • Alice: Qual class
  • Zachary: Native Studies

Text Notes

  • Deborrah: Substance use
  • Matthew, Everett: Organizational Anthropology (Neyland)
  • Maryjo: Bewildered 
  • Alice: Social research design

Action Items

Twentieth Text Note

  • Online ethnography and digital media

  • From deeper context to recent and current

Twentieth Exercise

  • Mini-project
  • Online fieldwork
  • Step 1: Entering the field

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