Teaching Anthropology at 'Crisis' Times at the Greek Borders: Emergency Temporalities Entering the Classroom during the Refugee Crisis in Lesbos

Pinelopi Topali
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In this paper I examine how culturally-based forms of time in Greece were transformed by the presence of new, emergency-like categorizations of time due to ‘crisis’. Reflecting on my teaching of anthropology on the island of Lesbos during the refugees’ arrival, I analyze how Greek temporalities got disrupted and muddled by the new ones that the humanitarian crisis created. A stabilized, extended anthropological temporality that was imposed by human relationships, fieldwork and anthropological analysis, the focus-on-the-present temporality that the financial crisis created and a new, hasty, emergency-like temporality that characterized the refugee ‘crisis’ all entered university classrooms and needed coordination. Academic responses to these, often dissonant, life-rhythms exposed and expressed underlying antinomies related to time but also revealed scientific, political and moral issues, as a hyper-activist anthropology became dominant. Coping with alterity’s time-spans in ordinary life, at some times resulted in hasty academic actions, at other times in long pauses.
希腊边境“危机”时期的人类学教学:莱斯沃斯难民危机期间进入课堂的紧急时间性
在本文中,我研究了希腊基于文化的时间形式是如何被由于“危机”而出现的新的、紧急的时间分类所改变的。在难民抵达莱斯沃斯岛期间,我在岛上教授人类学,回顾这段时间,我分析了希腊的时间是如何被人道主义危机造成的新时间所扰乱和混乱的。由人际关系、田野调查和人类学分析所强加的稳定的、扩展的人类学暂时性,金融危机所创造的关注当前的暂时性,以及难民“危机”特征的新的、仓促的、紧急的暂时性,都进入了大学课堂,需要协调。学术对这些经常不和谐的生活节奏的反应暴露并表达了与时间相关的潜在矛盾,但也揭示了科学、政治和道德问题,因为一个超级激进的人类学成为主导。在日常生活中应对另类的时间跨度,有时会导致仓促的学术行动,有时会导致长时间的停顿。
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