Who Knows Tomorrow Uncertainty In North-Eastern Sudan [Hardcover]

Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.

Sandra Calkinsis 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).

& [The text] is distinctly original in the way the research was carried out, and in its focus on the experience of uncertainty: not an easy thing to do and quite a challenge to social anthropology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute( (JRAI)

CalkinssWho Knows Tomorrow?is a refreshingly unconventional exploration of living with uncertainty in Sudan& while richly grounded in the ethnography and history of Sudan, the book compellingly rises to the level of an existential predicament that all people share& the book will interest those looking for fresh approaches that complement more familiar concerns in the study of African worlds. African Studies Quarterly

Taking French pragmatic sociology as point of departure fl&