Sensing the Everyday: Dialogues from Austerity Greece Seremetakis C. Nadia
Sensing the Everyday: Dialogues from Austerity Greece Seremetakis C. Nadia Sensing the Everyday is a multi-sited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in…
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Sensing the Everyday: Dialogues from Austerity Greece Seremetakis C. Nadia
Sensing the Everyday is a multi-sited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in the era of crisis. Nadia Seremetakis journeys from Greece to Vienna, Edinburgh, Albania, Ireland, and beyond. Blending sophisticated theoretical analyses with original ethnographic data, C.
The book proposes everyday life not as a sanctuary or as a recessed zone distanced from the structural violence of the state and the market, but as a condition of im/possibility, unable to be lived as such, yet still an encapsulating habitus. Social crisis is seen through its transnational multiplication of borders, thresholds and margins, divisions, and localities as linguistic, bodily, sensory, and performative sites of the quotidian in process. There the impossibility of the quotidian is concretized as fragmentary and fragmenting material forces.
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