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Autore: | Brković Čarna |
Titolo: | Managing ambiguity : : how clientelism, citizenship and power shapes personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina / / Carna Brkovic |
Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2017 |
©2017 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 306.0949742 |
Soggetto topico: | Patron and client - Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Political sociology | |
Soggetto geografico: | Bosnia and Herzegovina Social conditions |
Bosnia and Herzegovina Social life and customs | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina Social policy | |
Soggetto non controllato: | ambiguity |
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 | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Managing ambiguity |
ISBN: | 1-78920-841-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910796532403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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