Plenarvortrag III
Prof. Dr. Tine Damsholt (Kopenhagen /DEN)
„It is hard to understand we really have left 2020“ – Practicing everyday temporalities in co-present crises
Even if ethnologists consider themselves to be masters of the study of the everyday, we still know surprisingly little about how it works: Everyday life remains the black box of Ethnology, as professor Orvar Löfgren has stated (2014). Nevertheless, the co-present crises of the pandemic, the Ukraine war, climate, and biodiversity etcetera create a state of exception, where everyday temporalities are destabilised and become visible. Thus, the current and entangled crises may serve as an analytical prism, which opens up the otherwise taken-for-granted rhythms and ideals of the good life, as well as hopes and fears for the future, and a longing for a recent past. In the paper I will present my ongoing research which deals with the entangled and often materialized temporalities of everyday life, and especially what I coin the the ‘everyday practicing of futures.’
