Mistrust: Ethnographic ApproximationsFlorian Mühlfried Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trust in the state, and on rebuilding trust through civil society. The contributors to this volume, instead, take a step back. They ask: Can mistrust ever be more than the flip side of trust, more than the sign of an absence or failure? By looking ethnographically at what a variety of actors actually do when they express mistrust, this volume offers a richly empirical trove of the social life of mistrust across a range of settings. |
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How Not to Fall in Love Mistrust in Online Romance Scams | 49 |
When Stories Seem Fake Tacit Mistrust in Domestic Violence Counselling in South Africa | 71 |
Intervention Essay on the Anthropology of the Fiduciary | 93 |
Missing Trust for Surviving Confronting Complexity and the UnKnown in Makeni Northern Sierra Leone | 105 |
Mistrust During the Ebola Epidemic in Guinea | 129 |
Mistrusting as a Mode of Engagement in Mediation Insights from SocioLegal Practice in Rwanda | 147 |
Intervention Doubt Suspicion Mistrust Semantic Approximations | 169 |
Dont Trust Dont Fear Dont Beg | 179 |
Suspicion and Mistrust in Neighbour Relations A Legacy of the Soviet Mentality? | 201 |
Afterword Mistrust after Truth? | 219 |
Acknowledgments | 225 |
Authors | 227 |
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