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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
EASA series ; 31
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EASA series ; v. 31.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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Conclusion: Morality, Interest, and Sociality in the Global ""Postsocialist"" ConditionBibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Social conditions.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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Social conditions. |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Social policy.
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Social policy. |
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Patron and client -- Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Political sociology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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Patron and client. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Political sociology. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
| Indexed Term |
ambiguity. |
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bih. |
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citizenship. |
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clientelism. |
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corruption. |
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favors. |
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flexibility. |
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local community. |
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modes of power. |
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morality. |
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neoliberalism. |
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patronage. |
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personal compassion. |
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personal connections. |
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personhood. |
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political. |
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politics. |
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post socialist bosnia and herzegovina. |
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post socialist bosnia. |
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post socialist herzegovina. |
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postwar bosnia and herzegovina. |
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postwar bosnia. |
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postwar herzegovina. |
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power. |
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self responsibility. |
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social order. |
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social welfare systems. |
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social welfare. |
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socialism. |
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society. |
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survival. |
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the balkans. |
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welfare. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Brković, Čarna. Managing ambiguity. New York : Berghahn Books, [2017] 9781785334146 (DLC) 2017013750 |
| ISBN |
9781785334153 (electronic book) |
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1785334158 (electronic book) |
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9781785334146 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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