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.

• 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

“[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