The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order

Williams, Damian T.

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“…If that's the case, I understand. Honestly, I can't remember how many times I got “stuck in the space of boredom” (O'Neill 2017, 184) while writing this introduction. When reading academic literature, I sometimes wonder: Isn't the author human?…”

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Hundreds of words for Kathleen Stewart: A four‐dimensional retirement party for metaphysical rhizomes

Hazera

2023

Anthropology and Humanism

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SummaryThis essay introduces a collection of one‐hundred‐word reflections celebrating Kathleen Stewart's retirement. Dozens of scholars participated in this celebration. Each participant wrote a one‐hundred‐word reflection to stand alone as an individually authored piece. The disconnected brevity of these reflections may catch some readers off guard. Thus, this introduction develops a lingua franca to welcome as many potential readers as possible. This lingua franca combines five dialects: poetic, metaphoric, bibliographic, historic, and dialogic. Grounded in poetic form, this introduction speaks in the metered voice of one‐hundred‐word chunks. Many of these chunks offer metaphorical proposals for how to read our celebratory collection. Bibliographic citations, appearing throughout, create affective resonances with various scholarly literatures. Acknowledging anthropology's emphasis on context specificity, some chunks describe the historical development of the one‐hundred‐word form. Dialogically, this introduction uses the second‐person pronoun, you, to invite conversations rather than critiques. Such a five‐part lingua franca engages two camps of readers: readers who enjoy experimentation may think this introduction is too paranoid; readers who cringe at experimentation may think this introduction is too poetic. Alienating as few readers as possible, this essay proposes a Goldilocks solution: not too paranoid, not too poetic, but just right—or “good enough” (Milo 2019).

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Section: A Creation Myth For How This Collection Came To Bementioning

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Hundreds of words for Kathleen Stewart: A four‐dimensional retirement party for metaphysical rhizomes

Hazera

2023

Anthropology and Humanism

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“…People want something to finally change, they want their promised future. Instead, they know that everything will stay the same, no matter their efforts.” This subjective temporal dispositions is utterly “boring” (O'Neill, 2017). Similarly, as in the Romanian case, the boredom that Serbians I met was evoking has much to do with the quality of time or the way people themselves perceive the passage of time and where it leads them to (Ibid).…”

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After migration: An ethnographic exploration of the mindwork of stuckness

Dantzer

2023

Anthropology and Humanism

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SummaryIn this essay, I follow the migration journey of a young middle‐class woman migrating from Serbia to Germany. I explore the existential condition of stuckness that she reports as a continuous impasse throughout various stages of her migration career. By focusing on her migration contradiction, I survey the intimate temporalities brought about by being stuck differently in changing contexts.

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“…The clearance of these buildings opened some of the most valuable land in Bucharest for redevelopment (Chelcea 2019: 206). The homeless, meanwhile, were caught up in street sweeps, only to be driven beyond the city limits, roughed up, and then released with warnings not to return (see B. O'Neill 2017: 134).…”

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Up, down, and away: placing privilege in Bucharest, Romania

O'Neill

2021

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Anthropologists have become increasingly sophisticated in the analysis of class by detailing the urban margins, by 'studying up' to examine elite wealth, and by charting the rise of the global middle classes. The anthropological commitment to depth, however, tends to keep these three strata separate in ways that mirror analytically the kind of segregation observed on the ground. Tight analytical framings risk obscuring the co-ordinates of privilege, especially in cities such as Bucharest, Romania, which are being rapidly transformed by foreign direct investment (FDI). This article, by contrast, moves across Bucharest's diverging strata to explore the complex interconnections between the pursuit of FDI, urban planning, and increased class separation. Ethnographically, the article examines the production of three kinds of emergent spaces -homeless shelters for the very poor; high-rise towers for the truly elite; and metro stations designed for the middle classes -to trace the interrelated politics of belonging and exclusion in a rapidly transforming city. The article suggests that these efforts, successful as they may be at ordering competing claims to the city, produce a landscape that cements unequal class relations into the built environment. Taken from Bucharest, this analysis offers wider insight into the future of contemporary urbanism in the European Union but also in cities the world over that are being similarly remade to attract global capital.

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The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order

Cited by 3 publications

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Hundreds of words for Kathleen Stewart: A four‐dimensional retirement party for metaphysical rhizomes

Hundreds of words for Kathleen Stewart: A four‐dimensional retirement party for metaphysical rhizomes

After migration: An ethnographic exploration of the mindwork of stuckness

Up, down, and away: placing privilege in Bucharest, Romania

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