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Managing Ambiguity

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

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvČarna Brković,Čarna Brkovic,¿Arna Brkovi¿

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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

Utgivningsdatum2020-09-30
Mått152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt312 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEASA Series
Antal sidor208
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781789208412

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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