Fragile Futures

Helle Samuelsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Her research is based on more than 25 years of engagement in Africa, particularly in Burkina Faso. She has recently contributed to the book Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters edited by W. Adebanwi (Ohio University Press, 2022).

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Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations



Introduction



Chapter 1. A Family Narrative

Chapter 2. Ambiguities of Child Care

Chapter 3. Mobilities and Immobilities

Chapter 4. Technologies and Cosmologies

Chapter 5. Treatment Seeking and the Work of Hope

Chapter 6. The Availability LOGIC

Chapter 7. Moments of State Presence



Conclusion



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