Ethnographies of Waiting
Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty
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. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is negotiated in myriad ways. Examining the politics and poetics of waiting, Ethnographies of Waiting offers fresh perspectives on waiting as the uncertain interplay between doubting and hoping, and asks When is time worth the wait? Waiting thus conceived is intrinsic to…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Bandak, Andreas (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4742-8030-3
- EAN: 9781474280303
- Produktnummer: 25303850
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'353 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Manpreet K Janeja is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Andreas Bandak is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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