Haunting Futures

Crisis, Migration and Anticipation in Iceland

Marek Pawlak

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English

Berghahn Books
01 December 2024

Social theory; Social & cultural anthropology; Financial crises & disasters

Series: New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations

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.

By: Marek Pawlak
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781805397953
ISBN 10: 1805397958
Series: New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 01 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Marek Pawlak is a social anthropologist working as Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He is the author of the book Zawstydzona tożsamość. Emocje, ideologie i władza w życiu polskich migrantów w Norwegii (Embarrassing Identity: Emotions, Ideologies and Power among Polish Migrants in Norway) published by the Jagiellonian University Press in 2018.

Reviews for Haunting Futures: Crisis, Migration and Anticipation in Iceland

“This is a fascinating study that deals with a range of subjects that have become prominent within contemporary anthropology.” • Martin Demant Frederiksen, Aarhus University, Denmark