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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824899003321

Autore

Gilbert Andrew

Titolo

International intervention and the problem of legitimacy : encounters in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina / / Andrew C. Gilbert [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5028-3

9781501750274

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

949.74203

Soggetti

Intervention (International law) - Political aspects

Legitimacy of governments - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Postwar reconstruction - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ethnicity - Political aspects - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina Politics and government 1992-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Interlude : International Authority and Bosnia after Dayton -- The Limits of Foreign Authority : Publicity and the Political Logic of Ambivalence -- The Uses of History : Recontextualization and International Intervention -- Interlude : Field Sites, Field Methods, Field Contexts -- Doing Things with Ethnicity -- From Humanitarianism to Humanitarianization : Managing the Instabilities of International Aid -- Entextualization and the Making of International Authority.

Sommario/riassunto

Andrew C. Gilbert argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, focusing on the relations of difference and inequality, and the question of legitimacy that permeate such encounters. He discusses the transformations that happen in everyday engagements between intervention agents and their target populations, and also identifies key instabilities that emerge out of such engagements. Gilbert highlights the struggles, entanglements and inter-dependencies between and among foreign agents, and the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina that channel and shape intervention and how it unfolds.