| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
EASA series ; 31 |
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EASA series ; v. 31.
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| 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 |
| Analysis |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 07, 2017) |
| Subject |
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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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Manners and customs
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Patron and client
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Political sociology
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Social conditions
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Social policy
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| SUBJECT |
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Social conditions
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Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Social life and customs
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Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Social policy
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| Subject |
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017025651 |
| ISBN |
9781785334153 |
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1785334158 |
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