ISBN:
9781785334153
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (208 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
EASA Series 31
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.0949742
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note 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 --
Note:
Zielgruppe - Audience: Professional and scholarly
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785334153?locatt=mode:legacy
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785334153
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785334153?locatt=mode:legacy
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785334153
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