Latency of Care

Jan Bartsch, David Kananizadeh, Agata Marzecova and Angelica Wågström

In their contribution, Agata Marzecova, Angelica Wågström, David Kananizadeh and Jan Bartsch explore latency as an analytical category by bringing vignettes from their ethnographic research into conversation. Rather than offering a clear definition of “latency”, each ethnographic piece points to different scopes and connotations of “latency”. Paying attention to the multiple ways forest dwellers, children, and more-than-human actors work with or through latency, they identify latency being a productive temporal misalignment which gives time for generating reflection, to disrupt hierarchies, or for working on metabolic processes. Thinking with latency opens a space to capture temporalities of care and conservation that challenge dominant capitalist temporalities.

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