Open AccessTRUST WITHOUT CONFIDENCE: Moving Medicine with Dirty Hands
Author(s) -
RUBAII KALI
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca35.2.03
Subject(s) - ethnography , sociology , public relations , media studies , criminology , political science , anthropology
As participants in a small trust network smuggle medication across ISIS‐controlled northern Iraq to hospitals in the besieged city of Mosul, they theorize their pragmatic entanglements with unknown others. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2014 and 2015, as well as the author's participation in this network, the essay introduces enunciatory trust, or trust without confidence, as an analytical framework for surviving (in)security in Iraq.