PhD Supervisor: Jean-François Bayart
Expected completion date: 2024-2025
Théo Pilowsky is a first year PhD student at the ANSO department of the Graduate Institute, Geneva. His research will focus on the interactions between time, capitalism and globalization in Switzerland and elsewhere. The thesis will attempt at unveiling the different and multiple time regimes that are entangled in this historical and social formation and its dialectic with “global” processes. His research will also attempt at identifying the possible articulations between temporality, different entanglements of scales and identity formations. Through the study of temporal regimes and material culture considered as vectors of various modes of subjectivations that are linked with contemporary capitalisms and its interactions with the nation-state, globalization and regional identity-formations, he hopes to be able to contribute to the understanding of social temporalities as important vectors of individuation and subjectivation in the contemporary world (following recent sociological and anthropological enquires on the importance of time in contemporary social processes, for example, Hartmut Rosa, Laura Bear).
Country of origin: Switzerland, Chile