{"product_id":"managing-ambiguity-arna-brkovic-9781789208412","title":"Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eManaging\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Ambiguity\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Čarna Brkovic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789208416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789208412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"\u0026#268;arna Brkovic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941720457471,"sku":"9781789208412","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a181be4f-644f-4d49-8188-c046d5746210.jpg?v=1681454575","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/managing-ambiguity-arna-brkovic-9781789208412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}