International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy : : Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina / / Andrew Gilbert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Gilbert, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 7 b&w halftones

In International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy Andrew C. Gilbert argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, focusing on the relations of difference and inequality, and the question of legitimacy that permeate such encounters. He discusses the transformations that happen in everyday engagements between intervention agents and their target populations, and also identifies key instabilities that emerge out of such engagements. Gilbert highlights the struggles, entanglements and inter-dependencies between and among foreign agents, and the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina that channel and shape intervention and how it unfolds.Drawing upon nearly two years of fieldwork studying in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gilbert's probing analysis identifies previously overlooked sites, processes, and effects of international intervention, and suggests new comparative opportunities for the study of transnational action that seeks to save and secure human lives and improve the human condition.Above all, International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy foregrounds and analyzes the open-ended, innovative, and unpredictable nature of international intervention that is usually omitted from the ordered representations of the technocratic vision and the confident assertions of many critiques.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Intervention Encounters in a New World Order -- Interlude: International Authority and Bosnia after Dayton -- 1. The Limits of Foreign Authority: Publicity and the Political Logic of Ambivalence -- 2. The Uses of History: Recontextualization and International Intervention -- Interlude: Field Sites, Field Methods, Field Contexts -- 3. Doing Things with Ethnicity -- 4. From Humanitarianism to Humanitarianization: Managing the Instabilities of International Aid -- 5. Entextualization and the Making of International Authority -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index