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

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

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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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Jansen, Stef,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Dislocations ; 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (262 p.)
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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

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