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AnthroPod · September 10 · 57 min

92. What Disappointment Does

We’ve all been there—dashed hopes, longing, feeling the distance between the life we’re living and the life we want. Disappointment emerges in today’s world in a variety of spaces and social registers. But what does it feel like, how do we know it… what does it do? In 2022, anthropologists Sarah Muir and Jessica Greenberg published a review article on the anthropology of disappointment. This episode digs into their article and the affects, aesthetics, and practices around disappointment. In addition to Greenberg and Muir, we’ll hear from Chantal Croteau, Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza, and Fuad Musallam on disappointment in their ethnographic fields.

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We’ve all been there—dashed hopes, longing, feeling the distance between the life we’re living and the life we want. Disappointment emerges in today’s world in a variety of spaces and social registers. But what does it feel like, how do we know it… what does it do? In 2022, anthropologists Sarah Muir and Jessica Greenberg published a review article on the anthropology of disappointment. This episode digs into their article and the affects, aesthetics, and practices around disappointment. In addition to Greenberg and Muir, we’ll hear from Chantal Croteau, Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza, and Fuad Musallam on disappointment in their ethnographic fields.

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