Timely assets
Subtitle: the politics of resources and their temporalities
By: edited by Elizabeth Emma Ferry and Mandana E. Limbert.
Contributors: Ferry, Elizabeth Emma.; Limbert, Mandana E.; School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Series: School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School for Advanced Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781934691069
Subjects: Economic anthropology; Value; Natural resources; Cultural property; Finite, The; Time -- Sociological aspects
Description: "In all 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. Examining resources as various as silver in Mexico, "diversity" in an American university, and historical documents in Indonesia, the contributors to this volume ask several questions: Under what conditions and with what consequences do people find something to be a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?"--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.