Haunting Futures
Crisis, Migration and Anticipation in Iceland

By (author) Marek Pawlak

ISBN13: 9781805397953

Imprint: Berghahn Books

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Format: Hardback

Published: 01/12/2024

Availability: Available

Description
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.
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
  • Economic & financial crises & disasters
  • Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
  • Professional & Vocational
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