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The paper explores the transformations of temporalities in a Serbian village caused by the exponential expansion of the open-cast copper mines, recently taken over by one of the world-leading Chinese copper and gold companies.

Paper Abstract

The paper explores the transformations of temporalities in a Serbian village caused by the exponential expansion of the open-cast copper mines, recently taken over by one of the world-leading Chinese copper and gold companies. What kinds of future scenarios are being evoked by the expansion of the mine that today threatens to “swallow” the village in three to five years? How are novel geopolitical spatiotemporal arrangements experienced in the site that will be gone tomorrow? The paper explores these questions and different temporalities that the shifting industrial edges evoke among the locals. While discussing the “double bind” (Bateson 1972) and the temporalities experienced in this village, as well as the experiences of emptiness and contamination, the paper explores the production of social exclusions and marginalities in the area embedded within specific configurations of power within the unequal spatiotemporal configuration of contemporary global capitalism (Harvey 2007).