Caught in the language of fate: The quality of destiny in Taiwan

Homola, Stéphanie

doi:10.1086/698354

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“…Destiny, as others have also noted, ‘reveals itself with and through time’ (Elliot & Menin 2018: 295; see also Homola 2018; Palmié & Stewart 2016). As depicted in Sameen's graph, time carries possibilities both for becoming and for the unravelling of plans and aspirations.…”

Section: Destiny Openness and Timementioning

confidence: 95%

“…Pointing towards a point in the middle of the graph, she elaborated, ‘You don't stay the same as time goes on, you either move up or down’. Recent studies on destiny have highlighted its ‘malleable fixity’ (Elliot & Menin 2018; Homola 2018), which lends life both certainty and a preordained limit, and an uncertainty about when this truth will reveal itself and how it will interact with human actions and strategies. This unknowability often produces a ‘labour of hope’ and ‘anticipated actions’ to help realize the future (Elliot 2016) or to thwart and manipulate its intended course (Elliot & Menin 2018; Homola 2018).…”

Section: Destiny Openness and Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent studies on destiny have highlighted its ‘malleable fixity’ (Elliot & Menin 2018; Homola 2018), which lends life both certainty and a preordained limit, and an uncertainty about when this truth will reveal itself and how it will interact with human actions and strategies. This unknowability often produces a ‘labour of hope’ and ‘anticipated actions’ to help realize the future (Elliot 2016) or to thwart and manipulate its intended course (Elliot & Menin 2018; Homola 2018). For my interlocutors, alongside a ‘labour of hope’, uncertainty about the future that destiny holds for them is also a cause of unease.…”

Section: Destiny Openness and Timementioning

confidence: 99%

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The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan

Maqsood

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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What is the work of time on a marriage, and how does it transform people as they struggle to change and leave traces on others? Through reflections of middle‐class women in Pakistan who married men who did not share their religious aspirations, I focus on how difference is negotiated and conceived in these marriages, and on the unexpected outcomes in the religious outlook of both spouses. The work of time, articulated through the concept of sabar (forbearance), emerges here as a canvas for a confluence of human and nonhuman interventions, influences, and motivations, urging us to think of individual agency neither as autonomous action, as theorized in the liberal tradition, nor as wilful submission, as elaborated in Islamic contexts. Rather, agency, the capacity to assert one's own visions and hopes, depends on the malleability and openness of persons to time, leaving those who desire change in others equally exposed to transformation.

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Section: Destiny Openness and Timementioning

confidence: 95%