Mistrust : Ethnographic Approximations / Florian Mühlfried.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mühlfried, Florian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trust--Social aspects.

Trust.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

1 ed.

Other Title:

Mistrust

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2018.

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:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Trusting the Math and Mistrusting Humans

How Not to Fall in Love

When Stories Seem Fake

Intervention

Mis(sing) Trust for Surviving

Mistrust During the Ebola Epidemic in Guinea

Mistrusting as a Mode of Engagement in Mediation

Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg

Suspicion and Mistrust in Neighbour Relations

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Authors.

Notes:

CC BY-SA

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ISBN:

9783732839230

3732839230

OCLC:

1030822587

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839439234