04099nam 2200925 450 991079653240332120171021102139.01-78920-841-610.1515/9781785334153(CKB)4100000000775733(MiAaPQ)EBC4789136(DE-B1597)636004(DE-B1597)9781785334153(EXLCZ)99410000000077573320170816h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierManaging ambiguity : how clientelism, citizenship and power shapes personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina /Carna BrkovicNew York ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn,2017.©20171 online resource (208 pages) illustrationsEASA Series1-78533-415-8 1-78533-414-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexWhy 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.EASA series.Patron and clientBosnia and HerzegovinaPolitical sociologyBosnia and HerzegovinaSocial conditionsBosnia and HerzegovinaSocial life and customsBosnia and HerzegovinaSocial policyambiguity.bih.citizenship.clientelism.corruption.favors.flexibility.local community.modes of power.morality.neoliberalism.patronage.personal compassion.personal connections.personhood.political.politics.post socialist bosnia and herzegovina.post socialist bosnia.post socialist herzegovina.postwar bosnia and herzegovina.postwar bosnia.postwar herzegovina.power.self responsibility.social order.social welfare systems.social welfare.socialism.society.survival.the balkans.welfare.Patron and clientPolitical sociology.306.0949742Brković Čarna1565888MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796532403321Managing ambiguity3835968UNINA