Abstract
This article contributes to an understanding of the existential character of confinement by directing attention to the interlinked concepts of tiredness and foreboding. Through juxtaposition and analysis of material gathered among people whose lives are lived under compromised circumstances in Sierra Leone and Palestine we illuminate the way time – not only space–confines. Our analytical concern is with the way in which futures are anticipated by people confined in space and time, where conditions of possibility are materially and sometimes corporeally suffocating. To anticipate fragile futures, or to mourn futures terminated early is exhausting. Tiredness, from this perspective, is a ubiquitous and overwhelming sentiment suffusing what it means to live in confining sites. It is an expression of foreboding understood as a ‘being towards death’ (Stevenson 2014).
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Ethnos |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 96 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| ISSN | 0014-1844 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2019 |