Yearnings in the Meantime : 'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex /
Jansen, Stef
Yearnings in the Meantime : 'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex / Stef Jansen. - 1 online resource (262 p.) - Dislocations ; 15 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction [or, Towards an Anthropology of Shared Concerns] -- PART I Figuring ‘Normal Lives’ -- Chapter 1 – ‘Normal Lives’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Yearning] -- Chapter 2 – Waiting for a Bus [or, Towards an Anthropology of Gridding] -- Chapter 3 – Wartime Gridding for ‘Normal Lives’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Hope for the State] -- PART II Diagnosing Daytonitis -- Chapter 4 – First Symptom: ‘There Is No System’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of an Elusive State Effect] -- Chapter 5 – Second Symptom: ‘We Are Pattering in Place’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Spatiotemporal Entrapment] -- PART III Living with Daytonitis -- Chapter 6 – Conviviality in the Meantime [or, Towards a Critique of Dayton Non-politics] -- Epilogue: Shovelling and Numbering for ‘Normal Lives’ -- References -- Index
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Shortly after the book’s protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people’s sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless “Meantime.” Ethnographically investigating yearnings for “normal lives” in the European semi-periphery, it proposes fresh analytical tools to explore how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781782386506 9781782386513
10.1515/9781782386513 doi
Ethnology--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo.
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Anthropology (General), Urban Studies, Political and Economic Anthropology.
306.094974 / J157
Yearnings in the Meantime : 'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex / Stef Jansen. - 1 online resource (262 p.) - Dislocations ; 15 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction [or, Towards an Anthropology of Shared Concerns] -- PART I Figuring ‘Normal Lives’ -- Chapter 1 – ‘Normal Lives’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Yearning] -- Chapter 2 – Waiting for a Bus [or, Towards an Anthropology of Gridding] -- Chapter 3 – Wartime Gridding for ‘Normal Lives’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Hope for the State] -- PART II Diagnosing Daytonitis -- Chapter 4 – First Symptom: ‘There Is No System’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of an Elusive State Effect] -- Chapter 5 – Second Symptom: ‘We Are Pattering in Place’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Spatiotemporal Entrapment] -- PART III Living with Daytonitis -- Chapter 6 – Conviviality in the Meantime [or, Towards a Critique of Dayton Non-politics] -- Epilogue: Shovelling and Numbering for ‘Normal Lives’ -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Shortly after the book’s protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people’s sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless “Meantime.” Ethnographically investigating yearnings for “normal lives” in the European semi-periphery, it proposes fresh analytical tools to explore how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781782386506 9781782386513
10.1515/9781782386513 doi
Ethnology--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo.
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Anthropology (General), Urban Studies, Political and Economic Anthropology.
306.094974 / J157