Mistrust An Ethnographic Theory / Matthew Carey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL USA : HAU Books, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and good, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and generating prosperity. It allows for complex political systems, permits human communication, underpins financial instruments and economic institutions, and holds society itself together. There is scant space within this vision for a nuanced discussion of mistrust. With few exceptions, it is treated as little more than a corrosive absence. This monograph, instead, proposes an ethnographic and conceptual exploration of mistrust as a legitimate epistemological stance in its own right. It examines the impact of mistrust on practices of conversation and communication, friendship and society, as well as politics and cooperation, and suggests that suspicion, doubt, and uncertainty can also ground ways of organizing human society and cooperating with others.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Lying and obfuscation: The uncertain ground of speech 15

Chapter 2 Trust or tolerance? On the treachery of friends 39

Chapter 3 The triumph of contingency: Anarchism as Realpolitik 63

Chapter 4 Conspiracy, witchcraft and theft: Manifestations of the mistrusting imagination 85.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101684

ISBN:

9780997367522