Timely Assets - The Politics of Resources and Their Temporalities (Paperback)

Oil is running out. What's more, its final depletion, once relegated to a misty future, now seems imminent. In all the more or less apocalyptic discussions of oil and similar depleted resources, nature, labor, and time converge. This volume focuses on how resources, resource-making, and resource-claiming are entangled with experiences of time. Particular expressions of "resource imaginations" often have a strongly temporal aspect: they frame the past, present, and future in certain ways; they propose or preclude certain kinds of time reckoning; they inscribe teleologies; they are imbued with affects of time: nostalgia, hope, dread, spontaneity, and so on. Examining resources as various as silver in Mexico, "diversity" in an American university, and historical documents in Indonesia, the contributors to this volume ask several questions: Under what conditions and with what consequences do people find something to be a resource? What kinds of temporal experiences, concepts, or narratives does thinking of things as resources entail? How does the making and imagining of resources assume or condition particular understandings of past, present, and future? How do understandings of time shape the ways resources are named, managed, or allocated?

General

Imprint:	SAR Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Release date:	August 2008
Editors:	Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Dimensions:	230 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-934691-06-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	1-934691-06-2
Barcode:	9781934691069

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