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Author Gilbert, Andrew author

Title International intervention and the problem of legitimacy encounters in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina Andrew C. Gilbert
Published Ithaca Cornell University Press 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) illustrations
Contents Interlude : International Authority and Bosnia after Dayton -- The Limits of Foreign Authority : Publicity and the Political Logic of Ambivalence -- The Uses of History : Recontextualization and International Intervention -- Interlude : Field Sites, Field Methods, Field Contexts -- Doing Things with Ethnicity -- From Humanitarianism to Humanitarianization : Managing the Instabilities of International Aid -- Entextualization and the Making of International Authority
Summary "This book argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, thereby revealing the open-ended, innovative, and unpredictable nature of international intervention that is usually omitted from the ordered representations of the technocratic vision and the confident assertions of many critiques"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis ehtnography, Bosnia-Herzegovina, international intervention, humanitarian aid
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Intervention (International law) -- Political aspects
Legitimacy of governments -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Postwar reconstruction -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects
Intervention (International law) -- Political aspects
Legitimacy of governments
Politics and government
Postwar reconstruction
SUBJECT Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Politics and government -- 1992- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004466
Subject Bosnia and Herzegovina
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019046923
ISBN 1501750283
9781501750281
9781501750274
1501750275