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Here, the temporal modality of anticipation is introduced and discussed in relation to the concept of Mother-Multiple. As a mode of being that any family member can access when engaged in activities of caring oriented towards one’s “domestic others”—family members, pets, or the home itself as an entity—the Mother-Multiple ontological position is analytically situated in relation to literature on ontological multiplicity and a discussion of individuality and dividuality in personhood. The ways in which anticipation is employed in enactments of the Mother-Multiple, the techniques of imagination that anticipation entails, as well as the possible effects of activities of anticipation on domestic energy consumption are considered.
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Moroşanu, R. (2016). Anticipation and the Mother-Multiple. In: An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK. Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59341-2_6
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