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Yearnings in the Meantime : 'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex / Stef Jansen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dislocations ; 15Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781782386506
  • 9781782386513
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.094974 J157 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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