Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty

ISBN-13: 9781350126817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Manpreet K. Janeja; Andreas Bandak

Opis

We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements Foreword, Craig Jeffrey 1. Worth the Wait: Introduction, Andreas Bandak and Manpreet K. Janeja 2. “Great Expectations?: Between Boredom and Sincerity in Jewish Ritual ‘Attendance’”, Simon Coleman 3. Hope and Waiting in Post-Soviet Moscow, Jarrett Zigon 4. Time and the Other: Waiting and Hope among Irregular Migrants by, Synnøve Bendixsen and Thomas Hylland Eriksen 5. Waiting for God in Ghana: The Chronotopes of a Prayer Mountain, Bruno Reinhardt 6. Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park, James S. Bielo 7. Waiting for Nothing: Nihilism, Doubt and Difference without Difference in Post-Revolutionary Georgia, Martin Demant Frederiksen 8. Not-Waiting to Die Badly: Facing the Precarity of Dying Alone in Japan, Anne Allison Afterword, Ghassan Hage Index

O autorze

Manpreet K Janeja is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Andreas Bandak is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.