Alexandra Antohin uses the material analogy of the Ethiopian tabot to explore
alternative dispositions to waiting and indeterminacy. She explores how ‘moving
foundations’ of the home and church facilitate conditions of sustaining
instability. This thought-provoking discussion considers how dilemmas of
displacement and the manipulation of time during crises, such as urban
resettlement, can revise sociocultural assumptions about the march of time as
moving fast and forward.
