..., and retaliatory attacks by different factions of Taliban fighters. Using uncertainty as an analytic and ethnographic concept, this article traces the social life of the rumors, conspiracy theories, and stories that float around this violence. It draws attention to their multiple and often contradictory effects...

... water by a single reservoir, Björkman’s essay highlights the social and political fields through which water-shortage risk is encountered, as well as the everyday practices to which such risks give rise. Water risk, it is argued, inhabits a landscape of rumor, stealth, and speculation—on materialities...

... of causing her husband's death. The woman's decision accompanied moral turmoil in her village, and rumors of her “betrayal” circulated. However, the turmoil threatened to go beyond this localized setting. It brought to fore the fraught implications of “loyalty” shaped by India's occupation in Kashmir, its...

... of rumors in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan, confusion and coherence can be experienced simultaneously. The fact that the question “Who or what is the police?” can be difficult to answer definitively, as Farhana Ibrahim explores along India's western borderland, confirms the analytic importance of working...

... the com- of roles and it is, therefore, more informative and munal temperature by spreading atrocious rumors. useful to examine the role of the entire law and or- This greatly helps in instigating a communal riot der machinery in communal riots. We will try to and also in justifying...

... to the beating heart of rumors and conspiracy theories in Pakistan as they circulate among tribal Pashtuns and animate their pervasive mistrust of both the Pakistani army and the Taliban, including when there is little to distinguish them. While rumors have been theorized as a powerful tool for the subversion...

... of power in our world. It is no surprise, then, that the displacement of responsibility from local structures of authority and control has also created many enemy others, with rumors of hidden laboratories of biological warfare or bloodsucking migrant workers carrying infection and disorder lurking behind...

... was opaque, formation of extensive friendly ties between pri- officials spread rumors about how large the defi- vate businesses and public offices.38 Jogajog kora lit- cit, and how hopeless the situation, had become. erally means to add and add again, or to amplify...

... and attending events with Arab first marked on but rarely taken as an object of seri- East ladies. Indeed, rumor has it that the publication ous study.19 Indeed, as Robert Watson points out Middle of the king’s marriage was not popular within in his study of the office of the American...

... of the movement was family. The zamindars also spread the rumor that Moni Sinha forced to go underground. However, in the interim, the would soon be arrested--a rumor which agitated the peasants police went back to the village where the skirmish had who realized how completely...

..., rumors about the supposedly “occult” nature of same-sex sexual practices circulate widely. Dankwa, for instance, notes how Ghanaian video-films feed on, visualize, and spread popular beliefs about “lesbian cults” whose (older and richer) members supposedly steal the fertility of (poorer and younger...

..., that “Muslims were fund-­raising for a terrorist “all of the leaderships agreed that the commu- organization.” Instead of publishing the rumor, nity would speak through the mosque” in order the border press dismissed it, because one of its to confront...

... the language of surveillance and play with its permissibility in ways that disrupt the foundations of state power from which they nevertheless derive their authority. Ammara Maqsood's essay turns to the effect of rumors and conspiracy theories in Pakistan as these circulate among tribal Pashtuns, animating...

... data is being shared by the state, people—including colleagues and scientists—do not trust it. There is a set of fractures of disbelief and believing in alternate channels of what you're told as credible. How different is this from rumors in historical pandemics. 21 JL : It is interesting...

.... ward behavior of the British resident to the Court of Compared to the Gulf native agents, Kirkpatrick’s Hyderabad, James Achilles Kirkpatrick. Rumors in cultural trajectory went in the opposite direction; Calcutta claimed that Kirkpatrick appeared in public yet, the Scotsman’s case speaks directly...

... of English nation. According to one rumor, during the anti-Tamil riots under the present government's Open Economy policies.[7] of July 1983, some Sinhala gangs had claimed to be followers According to Sinhala nationalist such as Ven. Ananda, Sinhala of 3uttugamunu. Whatever its...

... about direct observation avoid others” (16 June, 3:24 a.m46 In one rep- (in many cases, not specifying whether they ob- resentative case, the Twitter user Change_for_ served something directly or were told about Iran tweeted “according to rumor Mousavi...

... of events, which followed a Congress (I) MP from the area, Sajjan Kumar. Simi- stereotyped pattern everywhere. The first phase was larly in Anand Parbat, Congress (I) councillors like marked by the floating of a set of rumors on the Bhairava, Mahendra and Mangat Ram, considered...

... rumors in the press, none of which every five Chechen men, women, and children. Al- were substantiated, it soon informed U. S. foreign most overnight the anti-Russian Chechen guerillas, policy towards the Chechen insurgency. whose cause had been previously looked upon with Few analysts on the Caucasus...

.... The same view question of compensation, and it was left to the was also expressed in the Iranian news media. Kamrouz Iranian government to decide. The essence of However, there was a rumor that a spokesperson for the Iranian government had...