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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781789208412
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-78920-841-2
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.09.2020
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
- Serie: EASA Series
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 312 g
- Seiten: 208
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 12 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
