Anthropology of Ambiguity

Anthropology of Ambiguity

Theory, Praxis and Critique

Heffernan, Timothy; Alimardanian, Mahnaz

Manchester University Press

05/2024

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9781526173843

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Introduction - Timothy Heffernan and Mahnaz Alimardanian
Part I: Theorising ambiguity
1 Ontology and its double: on the nature of ambiguity and lived experience - Mahnaz Alimardanian
2 Ambiguity and catastrophe: crises of understanding in the age of COVID-19 - David J. Rosner
3 Ambiguity and politics: the suppression of complexity in Australian governmental responses to climate change - Jonathan P. Marshall
Part II: Navigating temporal disruption
4 Queering the crisis-recovery nexus: personhood and societal transformation after economic collapse in Iceland - Timothy Heffernan
5 Accommodating care through strategic ignorance: the ambiguities of kidney disease amongst Yol?u renal patients in Australia's Northern Territory - Stefanie Puszka
6 Charting fields of uncertainty: disaster, displacement and resilience in Bangladeshi char villages - Mohammad Altaf Hossain
Part III: Imaging an 'otherwise'
7 Ambiguity in Belgrade's bike activism: marginalised activists, powerful agents of change - Sabrina Steindl-Kopf
8 Adding (ambiguous) value: interfacing between alternative economics and entrepreneurial innovation in Ecuador - Alexander Emile D'Aloia
9 The sovereign's road: checkpoints and the ambiguity of exception during Aotearoa's lockdown - Joe Clifford
10 Grease Yaka in Sri Lankan political culture: humour, anxiety and existential ambiguities in public sphere - Anton Piyarathne
Part IV: Self-realisation and disjuncture
11 Liminal ambiguity: the tricky position of being Black in white skin - Suzi Hutchings
12 The ambiguous path of self-cultivation in contemporary China - Gil Hizi
13 Ontological ambiguity: crisis, hyperfiction and social narratives in postmodern Japan - Angelica Cabrera Torrecilla
Afterword: sitting and being with ambiguity - Mahnaz Alimardanian and Timothy Heffernan
Index -- .
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anthropology; existential; humanistic; Simone de Beauvoir; liminality; lived experience; non-ontology; not-knowing; temporality; uncertainty