Managing ambiguity : how clientelism, citizenship and power shapes personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina /

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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 inst...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brković, Čarna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Series:EASA series ; v. 31.
Subjects:
Patron and client > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Political sociology.
Patron et client > Bosnie-Herzégovine.
Sociologie politique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Manners and customs
Patron and client
Political sociology
Social conditions
Social policy
Bosnia and Herzegovina > Social conditions.
Bosnia and Herzegovina > Social life and customs.
Bosnia and Herzegovina > Social policy.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781785334153
1785334158

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