Yearnings in the meantime : 'normal lives' and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex / Stef Jansen.
Material type: TextSeries: Dislocations ; v. 15.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781782386513
- 1782386513
- Sarajevo -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Ethnology -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo
- Ethnologie -- Bosnie-Herzégovine -- Sarajevo
- Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie, 1991-1995 -- Bosnie-Herzégovine -- Sarajevo
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Ethnology
- Social conditions
- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo
- Yugoslav War (1991-1995)
- 1991-2099
- 306.0949742 23
- HN639.S37 J36 2015eb
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Electronic-Books | OPJGU Sonepat- Campus | E-Books EBSCO | Available |
Print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction [or, towards an anthropology of shared concerns] -- Figuring 'normal lives' -- 'Normal lives' [or, towards an anthropology of yearning] -- Waiting for a bus [or, towards an anthropology of gridding] -- War-time gridding for 'normal lives' [or, towards an anthropology of hope for the state] -- Diagnosing Daytonitis -- First symptom: 'there is no system' [or, towards an anthropology of an elusive state effect] -- Second symptom: 'we are pattering in place' [or, towards an anthropology of spatiotemporal entrapment] -- Living with Daytonitis -- Conviviality in the meantime [or, towards a critique of Dayton non-politics] -- Epilogue, shovelling and numbering for 'normal lives'.
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.
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide
There are no comments on this title.