Who knows tomorrow? : uncertainty in north-eastern Sudan / Sandra Calkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calkins, Sandra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rashāyidah (Arab people)--Sudan.

Rashāyidah (Arab people).

Uncertainty.

Sudan--Social conditions.

Sudan.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xi, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2016.

Summary:

"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."--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index.

ISBN:

9781785330155

1785330152

OCLC:

945630500