Introduction: Worth the Wait

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This introduction foregrounds waiting as a central analytical category to make way for ethnographic attention to uncertain interplays between doubting and hoping. Using a range of focused ethnographies which explore the centrality of waiting in social life, it offers a critical lens on understanding the contemporary world through creative engagements between the political and more existential dimensions of waiting. Untying the taken-for-granted congruence of waiting and governance pre-dominantly addressed in the anthropological literature so far, this book explores how the worth of waiting is negotiated in myriad ways, made more urgent in a neo-liberal era of simultaneous waiting and speeding up across scales.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEthnographies of Waiting : Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty
EditorsManpreet K. Janeja, Andreas Bandak
Number of pages39
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Publication date8 Feb 2018
Pages1-39
ISBN (Print)978-1-4742-8028-0
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4742-8030-3, 978-1-4742-8029-7
Publication statusPublished - 8 Feb 2018

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