Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Locating uncertainty 2. Pragmatic state, precarious labor 3. Uncertainty at Work 4. The Politics of Mingan 5. Intimating Secrecy 6. Collective Action Conclusion: Laboring Through Uncertainty

About the Author

Darcy Pan is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on the state, labor, infrastructure, area studies specific to China, technology and urban development. She is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her most recent work has been published in the Handbook of Dissident and Protest in China (2019).