Managing Ambiguity. Čarna Brković

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Название: Managing Ambiguity

Автор: Čarna Brković

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Культурология

Серия: EASA Series

isbn: 9781785334153

isbn: 0

Аннотация:

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.