Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Introduction [or, Towards an Anthropology of Shared Concerns] 1
7. PART I Figuring ‘Normal Lives’
8. Chapter 1 – ‘Normal Lives’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Yearning] 33
9. Chapter 2 – Waiting for a Bus [or, Towards an Anthropology of Gridding] 59
10. Chapter 3 – Wartime Gridding for ‘Normal Lives’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Hope for the State] 87
11. PART II Diagnosing Daytonitis
12. Chapter 4 – First Symptom: ‘There Is No System’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of an Elusive State Effect] 123
13. Chapter 5 – Second Symptom: ‘We Are Pattering in Place’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Spatiotemporal Entrapment] 157
14. PART III Living with Daytonitis
15. Chapter 6 – Conviviality in the Meantime [or, Towards a Critique of Dayton Non-politics] 189
16. Epilogue: Shovelling and Numbering for ‘Normal Lives’ 221
17. References 233
18. Index 243