Managing Ambiguity - Čarna Brković
| Автор: | Čarna Brković |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
| Серия: | EASA Series |
| Жанр произведения: | Культурология |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9781785334153 |
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.