Ethnographies of uncertainty in Africa. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Elizabeth Cooper, David Pratten.
• Editors: Cooper, Elizabeth, 1976-; Pratten, David
• Contents: 1. Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa: An Introduction; Elizabeth Cooper and David Pratten PART I: SOCIAL CONTINGENCIES: BETWEEN SUSPICION AND THE SUBJUNCTIVE 2. Contingency: Interpersonal and Historical Dependencies in HIV Care; Susan Reynolds Whyte and Godfrey Etyang Siu 3. Charity and Chance: The Manufacture of Uncertainty and Mistrust Through Child Sponsorship in Kenya; Elizabeth Cooper 4. The Quest for Trust in the Face of Uncertainty. Managing Pregnancy Outcomes in Zanzibar; Nadine Beckmann 5. Food Security, Conjugal Conflict, and Uncertainty in 'Bangladesh', Mombasa, Kenya; Adam Gilbertson PART II: FUTURE VISIONS 6. Social Invisibility and Political Opacity. On Perceptiveness and Apprehension in Bissau; Henrik Vigh 7. Rhythms of Uncertainty and the Pleasures of Anticipation; Julie Soleil Archambault 8. Embracing Uncertainty. Young People on the Move in Addis Ababa's Inner City; Marco Di Nunzio 9. 'We Wait for Miracles.' Ideas of Hope and Future Among Clandestine Burundian Refugees in Nairobi; Simon Turner.
• Edition: 2015
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.096; Uncertainty -- Social aspects -- Africa; Pragmatism -- Social aspects -- Africa; Forecasting -- Social aspects -- Africa; Social problems -- Africa; Ethnology -- Africa; Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137350831
• Related ISBNs: 9781137350824
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