Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases. Limor Samimian-Darash and Paul Rabinow, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 256 pp.

Rabi, Michael

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“…In Ciudad del Este precarity affiliates with uncertainty both as embodied emotional experience and as shared structure of feeling. Ethnographers of uncertainty argue that it is a field of intervention engaged by state actors (Devlin, 2011; Rabinow and Samimian-Darash, 2015; Zeiderman, 2015). 4 Examining how state policies predictably concentrate risks in marginalized spaces, Austin Ziederman and colleagues argue that states can “govern through uncertainty” (Zeiderman et al., 2015: 283).…”

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Affect and the dialectics of uncertainty: Governing a Paraguayan frontier town

Tucker

2016

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This article discusses the affective politics enabling urban development in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, a young frontier boomtown where the volume of the extralegal transborder trade once exceeded the GDP of the entire nation. Against stereotypes of the city as lawless, I demonstrate how governing practices work through affect and emotion. I argue that local strategies of governing have temporal and spatial dimensions that produce an affective field of uncertainty for hawkers and street vendors. Paradoxically, the legal and spatial ambiguities that produce uncertainty as a disciplining structure of feeling are also the grounds from which vendors make claims to urban space. Yet vendors develop their own registers of need and entitlement through a politics of affective interconnection. This paper contributes to debates on the government of precarity and to geographical studies on emotion and affect by exploring how this dialectics of uncertainty enables exclusionary urban development.

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Section: Affects and Uncertaintiesmentioning

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Affect and the dialectics of uncertainty: Governing a Paraguayan frontier town

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2016

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Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases. Limor Samimian-Darash and Paul Rabinow, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 256 pp.

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Affect and the dialectics of uncertainty: Governing a Paraguayan frontier town

Affect and the dialectics of uncertainty: Governing a Paraguayan frontier town

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