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.
