Timely Rubies. Temporality and Greenlandic gems
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Timely Rubies. Temporality and Greenlandic gems. / Brichet, Nathalia Sofie.
I: The Extractive Industries and Society, Bind 5, Nr. 2, 2018, s. 267-273.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Timely Rubies.
T2 - Temporality and Greenlandic gems
AU - Brichet, Nathalia Sofie
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Based on anthropological fieldwork in Greenland, I explore how rubies as a natural resource create and organiseforms of temporality in order for the stones to appear as a valuable good. I suggest that a circular argument is atplay with regard to the Greenlandic rubies, namely that time creates valuable rubies and rubies create time. Ifurther argue that this interdependence is an important self-fulfilling driver in creating a viable mining industryfor gemstones in Greenland. A focus on temporality enables me to engage in this circularity and thereby exploreone component in the work of making valuable rubies. Rubies, then, come to work for me as a lens throughwhich to think about ways of creating and organizing time and vice versa. The underlying premise for thiscontribution is that time is thus not a universal measure that externally orders events, but rather a fieldworkfeature deeply embedded in and generated through social practices. Accordingly, time in relation to mining doesnot so much present a philosophical challenge, but is rather just a “thing” that happens to be good to think aGreenlandic resource landscape through – as are rubies.
AB - Based on anthropological fieldwork in Greenland, I explore how rubies as a natural resource create and organiseforms of temporality in order for the stones to appear as a valuable good. I suggest that a circular argument is atplay with regard to the Greenlandic rubies, namely that time creates valuable rubies and rubies create time. Ifurther argue that this interdependence is an important self-fulfilling driver in creating a viable mining industryfor gemstones in Greenland. A focus on temporality enables me to engage in this circularity and thereby exploreone component in the work of making valuable rubies. Rubies, then, come to work for me as a lens throughwhich to think about ways of creating and organizing time and vice versa. The underlying premise for thiscontribution is that time is thus not a universal measure that externally orders events, but rather a fieldworkfeature deeply embedded in and generated through social practices. Accordingly, time in relation to mining doesnot so much present a philosophical challenge, but is rather just a “thing” that happens to be good to think aGreenlandic resource landscape through – as are rubies.
U2 - 10.1016/j.exis.2018.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.exis.2018.03.001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 267
EP - 273
JO - The Extractive Industries and Society
JF - The Extractive Industries and Society
SN - 2214-790X
IS - 2
ER -
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