Mistrust

Florian Mühlfried

ISBN 10: 3837639231 / ISBN 13: 9783837639230

Published by Transcript Verlag Apr 2025, 2025

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Neuware -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. 232 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mistrust
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Apr 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837639231
• ISBN 13: 9783837639230
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 148H x 17D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 367 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Florian Mühlfried is a social anthropologist in the Caucasus Studies Program at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. His research interests include the state, religion, ritual, (not-)sharing and feasting.