Projects and Project Temporalities
Journal: Social Anthropology
Year: 2024

Abstract The project form – a goal-driven approach to resource allocation and task coordination – is one of the most widespread organisational technologies in the world today. Significantly, projects are pervasive organisers of time. They tether activity to schedules. They entail social synchronisations and disruptions. They presuppose particular temporal imaginaries – for example, time as partible and progressive – that mediate action. This introduction examines how the temporalities of the pro