Trusting and its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust
ISBN: 9781785331008
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Berghahn Books
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Trust -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Social interaction -- Case studies; Intimacy (Psychology) -- Case studies;

Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy. Because intimacy has often been taken for granted as the foundation of trust relations, the ethnographies presented here challenge us to think about dangerous intimacies, marked by mistrust, as well as forms of trust that cohere through non-intimate forms of sociality.


Vigdis Broch-Due is Professor of Social Anthropology and International Poverty Studies, University of Bergen.

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