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ambiguity
Author_Carna Brkovic
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citizenship
clientelism
corruption
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favors
flexibility
local community
modes of power
morality
neoliberalism
patronage
personal compassion
personal connections
personhood
political
politics
post socialist bosnia
post socialist bosnia and herzegovina
post socialist herzegovina
postwar bosnia
postwar bosnia and herzegovina
postwar herzegovina
power
self responsibility
social order
social welfare
social welfare systems
socialism
society
survival
the balkans
welfare
Product details
- ISBN 9781789208412
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Carna Brkovic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg. She co-edited Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and won the 2015 SIEF Young Scholar Prize.
