Yearnings in the Meantime : : 'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex / / Stef Jansen.
Shortly after the book’s protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a ti...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Dislocations ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction [or, Towards an Anthropology of Shared Concerns] -- PART I Figuring ‘Normal Lives’ -- Chapter 1 – ‘Normal Lives’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Yearning] -- Chapter 2 – Waiting for a Bus [or, Towards an Anthropology of Gridding] -- Chapter 3 – Wartime Gridding for ‘Normal Lives’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Hope for the State] -- PART II Diagnosing Daytonitis -- Chapter 4 – First Symptom: ‘There Is No System’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of an Elusive State Effect] -- Chapter 5 – Second Symptom: ‘We Are Pattering in Place’ [or, Towards an Anthropology of Spatiotemporal Entrapment] -- PART III Living with Daytonitis -- Chapter 6 – Conviviality in the Meantime [or, Towards a Critique of Dayton Non-politics] -- Epilogue: Shovelling and Numbering for ‘Normal Lives’ -- References -- Index |
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Summary: | Shortly after the book’s protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people’s sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless “Meantime.” Ethnographically investigating yearnings for “normal lives” in the European semi-periphery, it proposes fresh analytical tools to explore how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781782386513 9783110998238 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781782386513?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Stef Jansen. |