Introduction: Worth the Wait

TY - CHAP

T1 - Introduction

T2 - Worth the Wait

AU - Bandak, Andreas

AU - Janeja, Manpreet Kaur

PY - 2018/2/8

Y1 - 2018/2/8

N2 - This introduction foregrounds waiting as a central analytical category to make way for ethnographic attention to uncertain interplays between doubting and hoping. Using a range of focused ethnographies which explore the centrality of waiting in social life, it offers a critical lens on understanding the contemporary world through creative engagements between the political and more existential dimensions of waiting. Untying the taken-for-granted congruence of waiting and governance pre-dominantly addressed in the anthropological literature so far, this book explores how the worth of waiting is negotiated in myriad ways, made more urgent in a neo-liberal era of simultaneous waiting and speeding up across scales.

AB - This introduction foregrounds waiting as a central analytical category to make way for ethnographic attention to uncertain interplays between doubting and hoping. Using a range of focused ethnographies which explore the centrality of waiting in social life, it offers a critical lens on understanding the contemporary world through creative engagements between the political and more existential dimensions of waiting. Untying the taken-for-granted congruence of waiting and governance pre-dominantly addressed in the anthropological literature so far, this book explores how the worth of waiting is negotiated in myriad ways, made more urgent in a neo-liberal era of simultaneous waiting and speeding up across scales.

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-1-4742-8028-0

SP - 1

EP - 39

BT - Ethnographies of Waiting

A2 - K. Janeja, Manpreet

A2 - Bandak, Andreas

PB - Bloomsbury Academic

CY - London

ER -