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Managing Ambiguity : How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Čarna Brković.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: EASA Series ; 31Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785334146
  • 9781785334153
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.0949742 23/eng/20230216
LOC classification:
  • HN639.A8 B76 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I Personhood -- Chapter 1 Creating Knowledge about Others: Locating, Knowing “by Sight,” and Ethnography -- Chapter 2 Favors Reproduce Social Personhood -- Part II Citizenship -- Chapter 3 Local Community and Ethical Citizenship: Neoliberal Reconfigurations of Social Protection -- Chapter 4 Pursuing Favors within a Local Community -- Part III Power -- Chapter 5 Managing Ambiguity in Social Protection -- Chapter 6 Navigating Ambiguity: The Moveopticon -- Conclusion: Morality, Interest, and Sociality in the Global “Postsocialist” Condition -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I Personhood -- Chapter 1 Creating Knowledge about Others: Locating, Knowing “by Sight,” and Ethnography -- Chapter 2 Favors Reproduce Social Personhood -- Part II Citizenship -- Chapter 3 Local Community and Ethical Citizenship: Neoliberal Reconfigurations of Social Protection -- Chapter 4 Pursuing Favors within a Local Community -- Part III Power -- Chapter 5 Managing Ambiguity in Social Protection -- Chapter 6 Navigating Ambiguity: The Moveopticon -- Conclusion: Morality, Interest, and Sociality in the Global “Postsocialist” Condition -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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