Yearnings in the Meantime : : 'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex / / Stef Jansen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Jansen, Stef,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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