Ethnographies of waiting: doubt, hope and uncertainty

We all wait - in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for a response, for better weather, the holidays, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its cent...

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Weitere Verfasser: Janeja, Manpreet K. (HerausgeberIn), Bandak, Andreas (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2018
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Zusammenfassung:We all wait - in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for a response, for better weather, the holidays, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is negotiated in myriad ways and provides a new perspective on waiting as the uncertain interplay between doubting and hoping. Featuring eight detailed ethnographies covering areas such as India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Tajikistan, South Africa, Russia, and the UK, it examines both the political and existential dimensions of waiting to ask this central question: when is time worth the wait? With contributions from scholars in the UK, Europe, Australia, and the United States - as well as an afterword by Ghassan Hage - this is a vital contribution to the field of anthropology of time and essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and philosophy
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 212 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781474280273
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9781474280297
DOI:10.5040/9781474280273