Managing Ambiguity

How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina

AvČarna Brković

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare.Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:312 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:EASA Series
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781789208412

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Carna Brkovic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg. She co-edited Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and won the 2015 SIEF Young Scholar Prize.

Recensioner i media

“[This book] takes a substantial step towards understanding the impact of social protection policies inherited from the socialist regimes of Eastern European countries integrated into the European Union… [and] is a remarkable anthropological contribution to the understanding of how national contexts are affected by neoliberal measures imposed by the European Union.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

Innehållsförteckning

FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on transliterationIntroductionPART I: PERSONHOODChapter 1. Creating Knowledge about Others: Locating, Knowing “by Sight”, and EthnographyChapter 2. Favors Reproduce Social PersonhoodPART II: CITIZENSHIPChapter 3. Local Community and Ethical Citizenship: Neoliberal Reconfigurations of Social ProtectionChapter 4. Pursuing Favors within a Local CommunityPART III: POWERChapter 5. Managing Ambiguity in Social ProtectionChapter 6. Navigating Ambiguity: the MoveopticonConclusion: Morality, Interest, and Sociality in the Global Postsocialist ConditionBibliographyIndex