ISBN:
9781782386513
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
262 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Dislocations 15
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
Shortly after the book's protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people's sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless "Meantime." Ethnographically investigating yearnings for "normal lives" in the European semi-periphery, it proposes fresh analytical tools to explore how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: [or, Towards an Anthropology of Shared Concerns] -- PART I: FIGURING 'NORMAL LIVES' -- Chapter 1. 'Normal Lives' [or, Towards an Anthropology of Yearning] -- Chapter 2. Waiting for a Bus [or, Towards an Anthropology of Gridding] -- Chapter 3. War-Time Gridding for 'Normal Lives' [or, Towards an Anthropology of Hope for the State] -- PART II: DIAGNOSING DAYTONITIS -- Chapter 4. First Symptom: 'There Is No System' [or, Towards an Anthropology of an Elusive State Effect] -- Chapter 5. Second Symptom: 'We Are Pattering in Place' [or, Towards an Anthropology of Spatiotemporal Entrapment] -- PART III: LIVING WITH DAYTONITIS -- Chapter 6. Conviviality in the Meantime [or, Towards a Critique of Dayton Non-Politics] -- Epilogue: Shovelling and Numbering for 'Normal Lives' -- References -- Index --
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