Waiting - A Project in Conversation /

Waiting - A Project in Conversation / / 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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (190 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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