Introduction
Worth the Wait
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23720103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manpreet K Janeja (University of Cross River State, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-40 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | Ethnographies of Waiting (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781474280273.ch-001 |
| OpenAlex | W4234292126 |
| ISBN | 9781474280273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
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.
Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |