TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brković,Čarna
TI  - Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
T2  - EASA Series
SN  - 9781785334146
AV  - HN639.A8 B76 2017
U1  - 306.0949742 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Patron and client
KW  - Bosnia and Herzegovina
KW  - Political sociology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ambiguity
KW  - bih
KW  - citizenship
KW  - clientelism
KW  - corruption
KW  - favors
KW  - flexibility
KW  - local community
KW  - modes of power
KW  - morality
KW  - neoliberalism
KW  - patronage
KW  - personal compassion
KW  - personal connections
KW  - personhood
KW  - political
KW  - politics
KW  - post socialist bosnia and herzegovina
KW  - post socialist bosnia
KW  - post socialist herzegovina
KW  - postwar bosnia and herzegovina
KW  - postwar bosnia
KW  - postwar herzegovina
KW  - power
KW  - self responsibility
KW  - social order
KW  - social welfare systems
KW  - social welfare
KW  - socialism
KW  - society
KW  - survival
KW  - the balkans
KW  - welfare
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785334153?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785334153
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785334153/original
ER  -