In the Meantime

Adeline Masquelier is Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. She is author of Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town (Indiana, 2009) and Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger (Chicago, 2019). She is a former executive editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa and past president of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion.

“[This volume] curates an extraordinary conversation about what it means to wait, seemingly without end, in a moment that is supposedly defined by instantaneity. The book’s timing and its framing could not be better.” • Bruce O'Neill, Saint Louis University“This is a superb volume, on the subject of a particular temporal mode—what the editors call “the meantime”… this book is top-notch scholarship, on a cutting-edge subject that will make a significant contribution to not only anthropology but cognate fields.” • Anne Allison, Duke University

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: In the MeantimeAdeline Masquelier and Deborah DurhamChapter 1. “Just Waiting”: Korean Chinese Mobility and Immobility in Transnational MigrationJune Hee KwonChapter 2. In the Meanplace: Traversing Boom and Bust in China’s High Growth/Ghost TownMichael Alexander UlfstjerneEntretemps: “A Lot of Standing Around in the Dark”: Specters of Waiting in Paranormal ResearchMisty L. BastianChapter 3. Raising Consciousness in the Costa Rican Seasonal LowSabia McCoy-TorresChapter 4. Stranded in Decolonization: The Attritional Temporality of Sahrawi Activism in Moroccan-occupied Western SaharaMark DruryEntretemps: Machine-Made Time: Dialysis and the Complexities of Waiting and PlanningJanelle S. Taylor and Ann M. O’HareChapter 5. Waiting for Thieves: Nighttime Capital and the Labor of Sitting in NigerAdeline MasquelierChapter 6. Waiting to Heal in “Crip Time”: Temporalities of Chronic Skin Wounds amongst Gunshot Survivors in New OrleansDaniella SantoroEntretemps: Urgency, Boredom and Pandemic Mean/Time(s)Martin Demant FrederiksenChapter 7. African Time,Waiting, and Deadlines in BotswanaDeborah DurhamChapter 8. Waiting Out the Rush: On the Durability of Wealth in Kenya’s Coastal Sex EconomiesGeorge Paul MeiuAfterword: In Slow TimeThomas Hylland Eriksen