Managing Ambiguity : : How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina / / Čarna Brković.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Brković, Čarna,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: EASA Series ; 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Transliteration --; Introduction --; Part I Personhood --; Chapter 1 Creating Knowledge about Others: Locating, Knowing “by Sight,” and Ethnography --; Chapter 2 Favors Reproduce Social Personhood --; Part II Citizenship --; Chapter 3 Local Community and Ethical Citizenship: Neoliberal Reconfigurations of Social Protection --; Chapter 4 Pursuing Favors within a Local Community --; Part III Power --; Chapter 5 Managing Ambiguity in Social Protection --; Chapter 6 Navigating Ambiguity: The Moveopticon --; Conclusion: Morality, Interest, and Sociality in the Global “Postsocialist” Condition --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785334153; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785334153?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Čarna Brković.

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare. Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.