Waiting – A Project in Conversation

by Shahram Khosravi (Editor)

Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it mean to wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate their waiting? Waiting is about the senses. If you do not sense it, there is no waiting. We sense waiting in the form of boredom, despair, anxiety and restlessness, but also anticipation and hope. Prolonged waiting is like insomnia – a state of wakefulness, a kind of mood, an emotional state. But it is also about politics; affecting and affected by gender, citizenship, class, and race.



Blending ethnography, philosophy, poetry, art, and fiction, this book is a collection of works by scholars, visual artists, writers, architects and curators, exploring different forms of waiting in diverse geographical contexts, and the enduring effects of history, power, class, and coloniality.

Kindle Edition

Published January 12, 2021

Reviews

[S · Rating 4 out of 5]

The last chapter on trust (without a conclusion) is an odd choice.

There are chapters that are pretty great (like a chapter that discusses the movie Waiting on Passolini, a movie about a Moroccan village waiting on the return of an Italian director and more generally, the economic prosperity brought by the film industry for some when film productions come to the village).