Mistrust Ethnographic Approximations Florian Mühlfried

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mühlfried, Florian, Editor.

CASCADE, Funder.

Series:

Kultur und Soziale Praxis

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics; Trust; Crisis; Society; Culture; Ethnology; Social Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology; Sociology; Cultural Theory; Cultural Studies;.

Local Subjects:

Politics; Trust; Crisis; Society; Culture; Ethnology; Social Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology; Sociology; Cultural Theory; Cultural Studies;.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018

Bielefeld transcript Verlag, [2019]

Language Note:

English.

Biography/History:

Florian Mühlfried is a social anthropologist in the Caucasus Studies Program at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. His research interests include the state, religion, ritual, (not-)sharing and feasting.

Summary:

Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trust in the state, and on rebuilding trust through civil society. The contributors to this volume, instead, take a step back. They ask: Can mistrust ever be more than the flip side of trust, more than the sign of an absence or failure? By looking ethnographically at what a variety of actors actually do when they express mistrust, this volume offers a richly empirical trove of the social life of mistrust across a range of settings.

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Introduction 7 Trusting the Math and Mistrusting Humans 23 How Not to Fall in Love 49 When Stories Seem Fake 71 Intervention 93 Mis(sing) Trust for Surviving 105 Mistrust During the Ebola Epidemic in Guinea 129 Mistrusting as a Mode of Engagement in Mediation 147 Intervention 169 Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg 179 Suspicion and Mistrust in Neighbour Relations 201 Afterword 219 Acknowledgments 225 Authors 227

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed December 19 2025)

ISBN:

3-8376-3923-1

OCLC:

1030822587