Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Exploring recent configurations of social relations in post-socialist, post-war, post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina this collection of ethnographic research turns an analytical lens on questions of sociality. Contributions based on long-term, in-depth research projects explore how people in different parts of BiH make and remake social relations and outline how their practices of sociality relate to donor-set priorities and formal human rights provisions. The book explores the socio-political concerns which have emerged within BiH, incites interdisciplinary conversations and sheds critical light on ways of engaging with these concerns and discusses forms of sociality, politics and agency which remain largely absent from the official political discourse and practice of local and foreign actors. Explicitly focusing on social relations in BiH against the historical background of both war and Yugoslav socialism, and directly placing these in relation to authoritative discourses and policies regarding BiH today brings the different strands together while the commentaries of specialists who have studied BiH in different ways explicitly situates the contribution of ethnographic work in the country.
Dr Stef Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester (UK). Based on ethnographic research in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, he has published widely on transformations of home and hope with regard to statecraft, place, nation and post-Cold War reconfigurations.
Dr arna Brkovi is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University (Hungary). She is the editor of the Anthropology Matters journal for postgraduate and early career scholars and author of several articles and book chapters on healthcare, social security, and humanitarianism in Bosnia and Herzegovina and on nationalism and publics in Montenegro.
Dr Vanja elebii is Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the project Youth and Citizenship in Divided Societies at the University of Durham. Her research interests include topics such as borders, locality, temporality, age, visual anthropology and sensory media.
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Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Semiperipheral Entanglements
Edited by Stef Jansen, arna Brkovi and Vanja elebii
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Names: Jansen, Stef, editor. | Brkovi, arna, editor. | elebii, Vanja, editor.
Title: Negotiating social relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina: semiperipheral entanglements / edited by Stef Jansen, arna Brkovi and Vanja elebii.
Description: New York: Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016002735 | ISBN 9781472454386 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315597690 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Bosnia and Herzegovina Social conditions. | Bosnia and Herzegovina Social life and customs. | Bosnia and Herzegovina Social policy.
Classification: LCC HN639.A8.N44 2016 | DDC 306.0949742dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016002735
ISBN: 9781472454386 (hbk)
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Contents
Stef Jansen, arna Brkovi and Vanja elebii
Part I
Whose Voice? Post-War Articulations of Political Subjectivities
Ccile Jouhanneau
David Henig
Nejra Nuna engi
Armina Galija and Hrvoje Pai
Part II
Whose Flexibility? Informality in Practice
Azra Hromadi
arna Brkovi
Karla Koutkov
Paul Stubbs
Part III
Whose Vote? Engagements with Representative Democracy
Vanja elebii
Larisa Kurtovi
Florian Bieber
Part IV
Who are We in the First Place?
Neboja avija-Valha
Larisa Jaarevi
Svjetlana Nedimovi
Michelle Obeid
Florian Bieber is Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz (Austria).
arna Brkovi is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg (Germany).
Vanja elebii is Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University (UK).
Nejra Nuna engi is an independent social researcher with a PhD in the Anthropology of Everyday Life at Alma Mater Europaea Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (Slovenia).
