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Sandra Calkins - Who Knows Tomorrow?: Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan - 9781785330155 - V9781785330155
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Who Knows Tomorrow?: Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan

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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.

Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785330155
SKU
V9781785330155
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Ref
99-1

About Sandra Calkins
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Who Knows Tomorrow?: Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan
“… [The text] is distinctly original in the way the research was carried out, and in its focus on the experience of uncertainty: not an easy thing to do and quite a challenge to social anthropology.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
 (JRAI) “Calkins’s Who Knows Tomorrow? is a refreshingly unconventional exploration of living with uncertainty ... Read more

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