BOOKS - Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood ...
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Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Author: Carna Brkovic
Year: July 1, 2017
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 880 KB
Language: English
Year: July 1, 2017
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 880 KB
Language: English
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.