Timely Assets: The Politics of Resources and Their Temporalities

by Ferry, Elizabeth Emma; Limbert, Mandana E.

• ISBN13: 9781934691069
• ISBN10: 1934691062
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-08
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

This volume focuses on how resources, resource-making, and resource-claiming are entangled with experiences of time. Particular expressions of resource imaginations often have a strongly temporal aspect: they frame the past, present, and future in certain ways; they propose or preclude certain kinds of time reckoning; they inscribe teleologies; they are imbued with affects of time: nostalgia, hope, dread, spontaneity, and so on.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Introduction	p. 3
Depleted Futures: Anticipating the End of Oil in Oman	p. 25
Rocks of Ages: Temporal Trajectories of Mexican Mined Substances	p. 51
Wildlife as Renewable Resource: Competing Conceptions of Wildlife, Time, and Management in the Yukon	p. 75
Extinction Is Forever: Temporalities of Science, Nation, and State in Indonesia	p. 107
George Forrest's Rhododendron Paradise	p. 129
The Temporal and Spatial Politics of Student "Diversity" at an American University	p. 169
The Claims of El Pueblo: Possessions, Politics, and Histories	p. 191
Material Resources of the Historical Imagination: Documents and the Future of the Past in Post-Suharto Indonesia	p. 215
References	p. 243
Index	p. 277
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