Annual Review of Anthropology Precarious Placemaking Melinda Hinkson Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia; email: melinda.hinkson@deakin.edu.au Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2017. 46:49–64 First published as a Review in Advance on July 10, 2017 The Annual Review of Anthropology is online at anthro.annualreviews.org https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102116- 041624 Copyright c  2017 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved Keywords precarity, precarious, placemaking, ontological turn, network, critical anthropology Abstract This review brings anthropological accounts of place and placemaking into dialogue with the concepts of precarity and precariousness. In recent years, precarity has become a widespread empirical and theoretical concern across the humanities. The article traces the simultaneous rise alongside precarity of network and ontology as post-place-based frameworks for anthropological analysis. Although these new frames facilitate anthropological explorations in the spirit of the times, this review argues that both network and ontology lack the capacity to identify what is being transformed and what is at stake when and where precarity takes hold. To see models of placemaking as spaces of transformative possibility requires an account of coexisting, qualitatively distinctive forms of relationship to places. 49 Click here to view this article's online features: • Download figures as PPT slides • Navigate linked references • Download citations • Explore related articles • Search keywords ANNUAL REVIEWS Further Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2017.46:49-64. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org Access provided by 121.219.252.121 on 11/08/17. For personal use only.