Managing Ambiguity | How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina

¿Arna Brkovi¿

ISBN 10: 178533414X / ISBN 13: 9781785334146

Published by Berghahn Books, 2017

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Managing Ambiguity | How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina | ¿Arna Brkovi¿ | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2017 | Berghahn Books | EAN 9781785334146 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Managing Ambiguity | How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178533414X
• ISBN 13: 9781785334146
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 16D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 462 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Čarna Brković 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 and won the 2015 SIEF Young Scholar Prize.