Sandra Calkins

Broschiertes Buch

Who Knows Tomorrow?

Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan

Beschreibung

This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day to day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. Demonstrates how uncertainty need not be seen as a debilitating problem but also as an opportunity to create other futures.

Autor

Sandra Calkins is assistant professor for anthropology at the Free University of Berlin and a member of the Law, Organization, Science, and Technology group at the University of Halle. She has conducted research in Sudan and Uganda and published on questions of existential uncertainty, reflexivity, health and nutrition. In 2016, she won the young scholar award of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD) African Studies Association in Germany (VAD).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781789200898
• ISBN-10: 178920089X
• Artikelnr.: 52822130