Brkovic Managing Ambiguity

How Clientalism, Citizenship and Power Shapes Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-415-3
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 31, 208 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: EASA Series

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Challenging widespread views of favors as means of survival in transitioning contexts, this volume demonstrates that these contemporary globalized forms of flexible governance are not contradictory to one another, but often mutually constitutive. Managing Ambiguity follows how citizenship was redefined as an ethical category during transformations of social protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina, showing how favors offered people a way to navigate the resulting ambiguity over welfare responsibilities. Rather than being the result of a "transitioning" and "flawed" statehood, favors evinced global tendencies to insert individual ethics and compassion into the heart of organization of welfare.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brkovic, Carna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures

Acknowledgments

Note 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

Über Autor(innen)

Brkovic, Carna
Carna Brkovic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg. She co-edited Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Routledge, 2016) and won 2015 SIEF Young Scholar Prize.