Managing Ambiguity. Čarna BrkovićКультурология. EASA Series
- Название
- Managing Ambiguity
- Автор:
- Čarna Brković
- Серия:
- EASA Series
- Жанр:
- Культурология
- Год выпуска:
- 0
- isbn:
- 9781785334153
- 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.