The Time of Anthropology

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From within a broad set of concerns about anthropology and temporality presented at the ASA 2016 conference, this edited collection showcases those papers which viewed temporalities as not merely multiple but in various ways hegemonic and conflicted. The present collection expresses the spirit of the annual conference through a series of anthropological case studies of contemporary chronopolitics, taking as its central reference point the tensions that arise between open-ended and circumscribed views of the world. The papers explore different facets of the multiple temporalities at play in scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. The contributors engage variously with issues of state power, citizenship, ecologies of time in relation to athropogenic climate change, governmental uses of time through 'nostalgia' and 'urgency' and anticipatory infrastructures to bring together a broad but focused view of the scalar properties of chronopolitics - from the everyday to the macro-institutional work of nation states. Together the essays highlight the importance of chronopolitical research for the future of anthropological work.