The final chapter in Jean-Francois Bayart's "Global Subjects: A
political critique of globalization," is "When waiting is an urgent
matter," (with a section on "Global Godot") with attention to the
bio-politics/bio-power of detention, migration, camps, etc.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:36 AM, J.S. Hutta <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Going in a slightly different direction to what has been commented so far,
> Andrew Hill (OU) has a forthcoming book entitled "Seeing, Waiting,
> Travelling: Reimagining the War on Terror" (Palgrave 2008). He draws on
> Maurice Blanchot's essay "Waiting" from 1959 ("Whatever the importance of
> the object of waiting, it is always infinitely surpassed by the movement of
> waiting" - quote might not be exact) and on Lacan's 1945 text "Logical time
> and the assertion of anticipated certainty" (Escrits 2006). Hill relates
> what Lacan describes as the stage of trying to comprehend without being able
> to arrive (said to produce anxiety) to the state of waiting initiated in
> events such as last year's media reports on Taliban suicide bomber
> graduates.
>
> Hope this is useful
> simon
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Jeffrey" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 4:30 PM
> Subject: the politics of waiting
>
>
> >I am writing a paper on how diverse subaltern populations have come to
> >experience their marginalization in spatial and temporal terms, especially
> >their sense of waiting. Does anyone know of studies that have discussed
> >waiting as a social/geographical condition?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > Dr. Craig Jeffrey
> > Associate Professor in Geography and International Studies
> > University of Washington
> > Department of Geography Box 353550
> > Seattle, WA 98195
> > USA
> >
> > Phone 001 206 543 5870
> > Fax 001 206 543 3313
> >
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