Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa

1. Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa: An Introduction
Elizabeth Cooper, David Pratten

Part One. Social Contingencies

2. Contingency: Interpersonal and Historical Dependencies in HIV Care
Susan Reynolds Whyte, Godfrey Etyang Siu

3. Charity and Chance: The Manufacture of Uncertainty and Mistrust through Child Sponsorship in Kenya
Elizabeth Cooper

4. The Quest for Trust in the Face of Uncertainty: Managing Pregnancy Outcomes in Zanzibar
Nadine Beckmann

5. Food Security, Conjugal Conflict, and Uncertainty in ‘Bangladesh’, Mombasa, Kenya
Adam Gilbertson

Part Two. Future Visions

6. Social Invisibility and Political Opacity: On Perceptiveness and Apprehension in Bissau
Henrik Vigh

7. Rhythms of Uncertainty and the Pleasures of Anticipation
Julie Soleil Archambault

8. Embracing Uncertainty: Young People on the Move in Addis Ababa’s Inner City
Marco Nunzio

9. ‘We Wait for Miracles’: Ideas of Hope and Future among Clandestine Burundian Refugees in Nairobi
Simon Turner

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Ethnography, Anthropology, Development Studies, Poverty, Aid and Development, Development Policy, Development Economics