Past Visitor
Gregor Dobler
Affiliation
Social Science
Field of Study
Anthropology
Website
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Gregor Dobler is writing on the critical potential of "otium": moments during which we escape a focus on productivity. In ethnographic descriptions of everyday activities, he shows how people try to escape sheer productivity. Experiences of "otium," of being at liberty, can become socially and politically effective and lay the grounds for an emic critique of alienation.
Dates at IAS
Visitor
School of Social Science
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Degrees
Bayreuth University
Ph.D.
2002
Appointments
Freiburg University
2010
Professor of Anthropology
Basel University
2002–2010
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology