Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Ethnographies of Waiting : Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty |
| Editors | Manpreet K. Janeja, Andreas Bandak |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publication date | 8 Feb 2018 |
| Pages | 1-39 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4742-8028-0 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4742-8030-3, 978-1-4742-8029-7 |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Feb 2018 |