Vertiginous Life

Daniel M. Knight is Reader in the Department of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is author of History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece (Palgrave, 2015) and co-author of The Anthropology of the Future (Cambridge, 2019, with Rebecca Bryant).

“This book is an outstanding piece of work on the spatiotemporal elements of the so-called Greek crisis.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)“This is groundbreaking work in all terms – ethnographically, conceptually, analytically. The kind of book that will become a classic in more than one field.” • Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Durham University“This is an insightful and gripping account of a troubling undercurrent in Greece as depicted in the personal narratives by men and women who still struggle to build lives and livelihoods in the aftermath of the 2009 crash of the country’s state economy.” • Kathryn A. Kozaitis, Georgia State University

• PrefaceIntroduction: Vertigo: Temporalities and InconstanciesChapter 1. Mairi: The Nausea of UnknowingnessChapter 2. Dimitris: Rebuilding from RubbleChapter 3. Antonis: Technology and the ElsewhenChapter 4. Alexia: Life in SuspensionChapter 5. Aphrodite: Captivity of Chronic CrisisConclusion: Parting ShotsEpilogue: A Note on CrisisReferencesIndex