Waiting - A Project in Conversation / / ed. by Shahram Khosravi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Abdel Aziz, Basma,; Abidi, Bani,; Afshar, Hoda,; Berrada, Omar,; Chak, Tings,; Chalabi, Hayfaa,; Hamid, Majd Abdel,; Hilal, Sandi,; Karami, Sepideh,; Khosravi, Shahram,; Lundahl, Gunilla,; Mehrgan, Omid,; Nafisi, Golrokh,; Nikolić, Mirko,; Petti, Alessandro,; Porcaro, Salvatore,; Richards, Jenny,; Shibli, Adania,; Tofighian, Omid,; Wilding, Faith,
• HerausgeberIn: Khosravi, Shahram,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 243
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Prelude I. The Weight of Waiting --; Waiting --; Care to Wait --; The Sea is Mohammad al-Khatib’s --; Sandhours --; Prelude II. Stolen Time --; Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention --; Remain --; Arriving to Depart --; Refugees Welcome? --; Asymmetries --; Prelude III. Waiting among Dead Trees --; Ecologies of Waiting: Stories of a Vacant Land --; after the blast: near silence, rising --; Prelude IV. Standing in Line --; Queues --; The Distance from Here --; Waiting in Queues under Dictatorship --; Our Silence will Swell Like a Mountain --; A Tenuous Case of Trust --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839454589; 9783110743357; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754186; 9783110753967; 9783111025100; 9783110767315
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839454589?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Shahram Khosravi.

Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. Waiting is a particular experience of time, shaped by class, race, and gender. In modern societies, time is associated with success and money. It can be »counted, saved, spent, lost, wasted or invested«. Hence waiting symbolizes waste, emptiness, and uselessness. What does it mean to wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate their waiting? The book is a combination of text and images, by scholars, artists, architects, and curators whose works deal with waiting in various situations and geographies.