Daniel M. Knight is Reader in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where he is also Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He is author of History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece (Palgrave, 2015), co-author of The Anthropology of the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2019, with Rebecca Bryant), and co-editor of Ethnographies of Austerity: Temporality, Crisis and Affect in Southern Europe (Routledge, 2017, with Charles Stewart). He has edited collections on Alternatives to Austerity (2017, with Laura Bear), and Orientations to the Future (2019, with Rebecca Bryant). His work on crisis, temporality, austerity, neoliberalism and renewable energy has appeared in journals such as American Ethnologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Anthropological Quarterly. Daniel is co-editor of History and Anthropology journal. Email: [email protected].
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Emptiness
This series argues that emptiness is emerging as a concrete spatial-temporal coordinate in the global landscape of capitalism and state power, and a heuristic d... More
Emptiness: An Introduction
Emptiness conjures up a variety of meanings for the modern subject, such as chaos before order or an existential void that accompanies the life of plenty. It is... More
Emptiness and Chronic Crisis
After the destructive rupture of financial ruin and a decade of aggressive structural reform, Greece has entered a timespace of perpetual crisis marked by suspe... More
Sun Grab: Failing Futures in Greece
The future of the Greek nation was once pinned to the potential of natural resources, particularly the sun and wind. In the bleak crisis years immediately after... More