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2-0700 TOWARDS A POLITICS OF INACTIVITY
Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-19:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers:  Bruce O'Neill (Stanford University)
Chairs:  Bruce O'Neill (Stanford University)
18:00
From ‘boring’ to ‘bored’: Economic Inactivity, Marginalization and Transformations of Self In Aboriginal Australia
Yasmine Musharbash (UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY)
18:15
Inactivity and the Problem of Rest: Madness, Institutionalization, and New Poverty In Romania and the U.S. 
Jack R Friedman (UCLA)
18:30
Unemployment, Time, and the Production of Friendships Among Young Men In Urban Ethiopia
Daniel C Mains (University of Oklahoma)
18:45
Dude, Where’s My Car? :Downward Mobility, Boredom & Space-Time Expansion In Romania
Bruce O'Neill (Stanford University)
19:00
The Ebb of Invisible Labor: Moroccan Craftswomen and Converting Productivity
Claire B Nicholas (Princeton University)
19:15
“We Are the Losers of Socialism:” Social Cases and Inaction As Welfare Policy
Jonathan J Stillo (CUNY Graduate Center)
19:30
What Are They Waiting for? the Politics of Anticipation In Bogotá, Colombia
Austin G Zeiderman (Stanford University)
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