Ethnographies of waiting : : doubt, hope and uncertainty / / edited by Manpreet K. Janeja and Andreas Bandak.
"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. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, UK ;, New York, NY, USA : : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | 1 ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | XVI, 212 s.; ill. |
| Notes: | "First published 2018 by Bloomsbury Academic." |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and AcknowledgementsForeword, Craig Jeffrey1. Worth the Wait: Introduction, Andreas Bandak and Manpreet K. Janeja2. "Great Expectations?: Between Boredom and Sincerity in Jewish Ritual 'Attendance'", Simon Coleman3. Hope and Waiting in Post-Soviet Moscow, Jarrett Zigon4. Time and the Other: Waiting and Hope among Irregular Migrants by, Synnøve Bendixsen and Thomas Hylland Eriksen5. Waiting for God in Ghana: The Chronotopes of a Prayer Mountain, Bruno Reinhardt6. Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park, James S. Bielo7. Waiting for Nothing: Nihilism, Doubt and Difference without Difference in Post-Revolutionary Georgia, Martin Demant Frederiksen8. Not-Waiting to Die Badly: Facing the Precarity of Dying Alone in Japan, Anne AllisonAfterword, Ghassan HageIndex