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

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

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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 discusse...

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

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