Ethnographies of Waiting

Manpreet K Janeja is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Andreas Bandak is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

"This book is certainly worth the wait, since it offers a beautifully introduced anthropological collection that shows that waiting is no less than a general feature of the human condition. Located in highly specific sites, communities and contexts, this book shows that waiting is an active mode of being, which demands patience, sociality, hope and agency. It will be of great interest to anthropologists as well as humanists more generally. - Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USAThis is one of those books that demonstrates brilliantly the ability of social anthropology to cast light on usually ignored corners of social life, showing in the process that such dusty spaces are far less marginal than is usually thought. Waiting, it turns out, is not just a socially cheap way of filling the gaps between the events of our lives. Instead, it is critical to our conceptions of time and to the ways we understand and approach the future. Inasmuch as every good anthropologist cares about time, all of them stand to learn a great deal from this volume. - Joel Robbins, University of Cambridge, UKA remarkable contribution to anthropology, sociology, political science and cultural studies. - Anthropological Journal of European Cultures"

• Preface and AcknowledgementsForeword, Craig Jeffrey1. Worth the Wait: Introduction, Andreas Bandak and Manpreet K. Janeja2. “Great Expectations?: Between Boredom and Sincerity in Jewish Ritual ‘Attendance’”, Simon Coleman3. Hope and Waiting in Post-Soviet Moscow, Jarrett Zigon4. Time and the Other: Waiting and Hope among Irregular Migrants by, Synnøve Bendixsen and Thomas Hylland Eriksen5. Waiting for God in Ghana: The Chronotopes of a Prayer Mountain, Bruno Reinhardt6. Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park, James S. Bielo7. Waiting for Nothing: Nihilism, Doubt and Difference without Difference in Post-Revolutionary Georgia, Martin Demant Frederiksen8. Not-Waiting to Die Badly: Facing the Precarity of Dying Alone in Japan, Anne AllisonAfterword, Ghassan HageIndex