Who Knows Tomorrow?

Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-089-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calkins, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Notes on Transliteration

List of Abbreviations and Glossary

Map

Introduction: Taming Unknowns in Sudan

Chapter 1. Towards an Anthropology of Uncertainty

Chapter 2. Contesting Forms: Translating Poverty and Uncertainty

Chapter 3. Insisting on Forms: Bracketing Uncertainties in Gold Mining

Chapter 4. Standardizing Forms: Uncertain Food Supplies

Chapter 5. Establishing Urgent Forms: Uncertainties of Ill Health

Conclusion: Uncertainty and Forms: Asking New Questions

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Calkins, Sandra
Sandra Calkins is assistant professor for anthropology at the Free University of Berlin and a member of the Law, Organization, Science, and Technology group at the University of Halle. She has conducted research in Sudan and Uganda and published on questions of existential uncertainty, reflexivity, health and nutrition. In 2016, she won the young scholar award of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD) African Studies Association in Germany (VAD).

Sandra Calkins is assistant professor for anthropology at the Free University of Berlin and a member of the Law, Organization, Science, and Technology group at the University of Halle. She has conducted research in Sudan and Uganda and published on questions of existential uncertainty, reflexivity, health and nutrition. In 2016, she won the young scholar award of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD) African Studies Association in Germany (VAD).