Managing Ambiguity : How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina Hardback
by Carna Brkovic
Part of the EASA Series series
Hardback
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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 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:25/07/2017
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- ISBN:9781785334146
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:25/07/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781785334146