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UNINA9910812254903321 |
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Autore |
Brković Čarna |
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Managing ambiguity : : how clientelism, citizenship and power shapes personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina / / Carna Brkovic |
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New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Patron and client - Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Political sociology |
Bosnia and Herzegovina Social conditions |
Bosnia and Herzegovina Social life and customs |
Bosnia and Herzegovina Social policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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