Haunting Futures: Crisis, Migration and Anticipation in Iceland

by Marek Pawlak

Overview

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Polish migrant community in their midst alert to looming futures in crisis. It offers insights into timely crisis-ridden impacts and imaginings, migration processes and social understandings and practices. Through its attention to how people engage with crisis temporally and affectively, the book presents the crisis not simply as an isolated and distressing event but as a spectre embodied in time through ongoing anticipation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805397953
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	12/01/2024
Series:	New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations , #10
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Marek Pawlak is a social anthropologist working as Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian Universityin Krakow. He is the author of the book Zawstydzona tożsamość. Emocje, ideologie i władza w życiu polskich migrantów w Norwegii (Embarrassing Identity: Emotions, Ideologies and Power among Polish Migrants in Norway) published by the Jagiellonian UniversityPress in 2018.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Ruptures, Shifts and Ripples

Chapter 1. Discomforting Futures
Chapter 2. Crisis Entanglements: Colonialism, Nationalism and Neoliberalism
Chapter 3. Unfolding Crisis
Chapter 4. Emerging Pasts, Possible Futures
Chapter 5. Haunting Futures

Conclusions: The Troubled Times

References
Index

Editorial Reviews

“This is a fascinating study that deals with a range of subjects that have become prominent within contemporary anthropology.” • Martin Demant Frederiksen, Aarhus University, Denmark

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