ISBN:
9781137350824
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (213 p)
Series Statement:
Anthropology, Change and Development
Series Statement:
Anthropology, Change, and Development Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa
DDC:
306.096
Keywords:
Ethnography
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈p 〉This collection explores the productive potential of uncertainty for people living in Africa as well as for scholars of Africa. Eight ethnographic case studies from across the continent examine how uncertainty is used to negotiate insecurity, create and conduct relationships, and act as a source for imagining the future
Description / Table of Contents:
Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa: An Introduction; Uncertain Definitions; Social Contingency and 'Subjunctive' Subjects; Future Visions: The Future as a Cultural Fact?; Narrating Lived Experiences of Uncertainty; References; Part One - Social Contingencies; Contingency: Interpersonal and Historical Dependencies in HIV Care; Introduction; Railway Connections; The Ethos of Contingency; Impersonal and Personal Contingencies; Conclusion; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Charity and Chance: The Manufacture of Uncertainty and Mistrust through Child Sponsorship in Kenya*Introduction; The Study; A History of Changing Chances; Contrived Disconnections; A Local Political Economy of Charity and Chance; Conditions of Mistrust in Life's Chances; Conclusion; Notes; References; The Quest for Trust in the Face of Uncertainty: Managing Pregnancy Outcomes in Zanzibar; Introduction; Uncertain Outcomes; Mamu: Managing the Dangers of Childbirth; A Leap of Faith; Establishing Trust through Secrecy: Nassra; Making Connections; Secrecy: Testing and Trying
Description / Table of Contents:
Secrecy and Morality in Uncertain TimesContingency, Social Closeness, and the Creation of Confidence; Conclusion; Notes; References; Food Security, Conjugal Conflict, and Uncertainty in 'Bangladesh', Mombasa, Kenya; Introduction; Field Site and Methods; Households and Headship; Marital Relationships: 'Come-We-Stay'; Household Food Security, Uncertainty, and Hunger; Food and Power within Conjugal Households; Food Insecurity, Uncertainty, Infidelity, and Household Instability; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part Two - Future Visions
Description / Table of Contents:
Social Invisibility and Political Opacity: On Perceptiveness and Apprehension in BissauIntroduction; Ordinary but Intensified; Apprehension and Perceptiveness; Perceptiveness and Perseverance; Invisible Powers; The Opacity of Politics and the Enhancement of Perspective; Alert and Attentive; Suspicion and the Underneath of Things; Social Invisibility at Large; Conclusion; Notes; References; Rhythms of Uncertainty and the Pleasures of Anticipation; Permanently Living in Survival Mode?; Rhythms of Uncertainty, Punctuated Time, and the Near Future
Description / Table of Contents:
Wage Work in Southern Mozambique: Salaries to Live More than to SurviveHungry Divas and the Allocation of Resources; Planos and the Pleasures of Anticipation; Unpredictability and the Dangers of Liquidity; The Temporality of Spatial Metaphors; Notes; References; Embracing Uncertainty: Young People on the Move in Addis Ababa's Inner City1; Multiple Lives; Life Trajectories, Youth, and Uncertainty; Embracing Uncertainty; 'I like my brain'; Age Is Just a Number; The Morality of Chance; 'Everybody is moving out there'; Epilogue; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
'We Wait for Miracles': Ideas of Hope and Future among Clandestine Burundian Refugees in Nairobi
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