(s) of people and understand them in the context of hardship, whether this is in times of violent conflict or in long-term lingering insecurity and uncertainty. Azu’s biography serves as an analytical tool to understand the choices of young Nigerians with
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Made in Nigeria
Duress and Upwardly Mobile Youth in the Biography of a Young Entrepreneur in Enugu
Inge Ligtvoet
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Post-Conflict Dynamics in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Identities, Nationalization, and Missing Bodies
Katerina Seraïdari
present those who have disappeared. Whereas Arjun Appadurai (1998: 920) shows in a famous article how the body can become “a site for resolving uncertainty,” Huttunen makes of the missing body a permanent locus of ambiguity that only identification and
Danger, Moral Opacity, and Outrage
Fear of Jihadism and the Terrorist Threat in Southern Mali
Tone Sommerfelt
immaterialized … making uncertainty and opacity foundational aspects of the social condition” (2011: 94). Uncertainty derived from the impossibility of grasping a person’s moral makeup thus appears in all social contexts. When a sense of insecurity settles and
"Our Future Is Already in Jeopardy"
Duress and the Palimpsest of Violence of Two CAR Student Refugees in the DRC
Maria Catherina Wilson Janssens
words, the country in March 2003. After a couple months of unrest, open violence subsided. Yet, the period from 1996 to 2003 had brought trauma and uncertainty to the country. During my research, the mutinies and their aftermath were often cited as the
Navigating the Politics of Anxiety
Moral Outrage, Responsiveness, and State Accountability in Denmark
Mette-Louise Johansen
, the employees experience many challenges in relation to their expert role, and my research turned into a study of all the uncertainties and negotiations that are involved in CVE casework. The Infohouse staff work in a context that is loaded with
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Understanding Experiences and Decisions in Situations of Enduring Hardship in Africa
Mirjam de Bruijn and Jonna Both
parts of the world, Vigh’s conceptual exploration still foregrounds the experience of “crisis” more than that of its chronicity. As in much contemporary work by anthropologists, the analysis centers on notions of uncertainty and unpredictability (see, e
Erin R. Eldridge
fatalities, but the disaster eventually displaced numerous households, impacted property values, and created a great amount of uncertainty and anxiety about the long-term effects of living with coal ash ( Button 2010 ; Eldridge 2013 ). The TVA disaster put
Shadow Soldiering
Shifting Constellations and Permeable Boundaries in “Private” Security Contracting
Maya Mynster Christensen
practices are characterized by uncertainty and obscurity (16). Extending from the work of Diphoorn, I propose that by focusing on how the very same ex-soldiers and ex-militias move between different modes and modalities of soldiering over time, we can
A Phone without Names
Distrust and Duress in Côte d’Ivoire
Kathrin Heitz-Tokpa
actors and situations is key. 9 Following Dewey ([1929] 1990) and Beck (1992) , I clearly distinguish insecurity and calculable security risks from uncertainty. I understand uncertainty as unpredictability due to a lack of knowledge, and insecurity as
Migrant Residents in Search of Residences
Locating Structural Violence at the Interstices of Bureaucracies
Megan Sheehan
argues that these mechanisms of the state are most epitomized by arbitrariness, contradiction, uncertainty, and confusion ( Auyero 2012 ; Bear and Mathur 2015 ; Cabot 2012 ; Gupta 2012 ; Hull 2012 ; Tuckett 2015 ). This work applies scholarship that