This book turns the analytical lens on lived socialities in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than a decade after the 1990s war and almost two decades after the end of Yugoslav socialism. Tracing people's social practices and concerns in terms of their livelihoods, political representation and legitimacy, memory and witnessing, care, neighbourliness and solidarity, the ethnographic studies contained in this volume offer intricate insights into the entanglement of lives in this European semiperiphery.
Addressing the ways in which different people in supervised Bosnia and Herzegovina make sense of their current predicaments against the background of domestic and foreign policies, this book aims to open up an interdisciplinary conversation on the contribution of ethnographic research to understandings of social processes in South East Europe. It also opens up avenues for comparative work by providing diagnostic perspectives on the issues of political subjectivity, liberal representative democracy, globalising neoliberalising capitalism and knowledge production. Combining ethnographic sensitivity, an awareness of processes on different scales, and compassionate critique, this book will be of interest to students and scholars working in anthropology, sociology, European politics and development studies.
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| Introduction: New Ethnographic Perspectives on Mature Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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PART I Whose Voice? Post-War Articulations of Political Subjectivities |
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1 The Discretion of Witnesses: War Camp Memories Between Politicisation and Civility |
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2 Fragments of Village Life and the Rough Ground of the Political in Post-War BiH |
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3 Integrating `During the War' in `After the War': Narrative Positionings in Post-War Sarajevo |
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PART II Whose Flexibility? Informality in Practice |
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4 Affective Labour: Work, Love and Care for the Elderly in Bihac |
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5 Flexibility of Vezel Stele: Negotiating Social Protection in Bijeljina |
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6 `The King is Naked': Internationality, Informality and Ko Fol State-building |
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PART III Whose Vote? Engagements with Representative Democracy |
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7 Beyond to Vote or Not to Vote: How Youth Engage with Politics |
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8 Future Conditional: Precarious Lives, Strange Loyalties and Ambivalent Subjects of Dayton BiH |
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PART IV Who are `We' in the First Place? |
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9 Raja: The Ironic Subject of Everyday Life in Sarajevo |
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10 Excavating the Common Ground: Bosnian Pyramids and Post-National Communities |
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Afterword: Afterwards: Beyond Regionally Based Theoretical Metonyms |
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Dr Stef Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester (UK). Based on ethnographic research in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, he has published widely on transformations of home and hope with regard to statecraft, place, nation and post-Cold War reconfigurations.
Dr Carna Brkovic is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg (Germany).
Dr Vanja elebii is Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the project Youth and Citizenship in Divided Societies at the University of Durham. Her research interests include topics such as borders, locality, temporality, age, visual anthropology and sensory media.
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