Yearnings in the meantime : 'normal lives' and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex /
Shortly after the book's protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Dislocations ;
v. 15. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qcxhw |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction [or, towards an anthropology of shared concerns]
- Figuring 'normal lives'
- 'Normal lives' [or, towards an anthropology of yearning]
- Waiting for a bus [or, towards an anthropology of gridding]
- War-time gridding for 'normal lives' [or, towards an anthropology of hope for the state]
- Diagnosing Daytonitis
- First symptom: 'there is no system' [or, towards an anthropology of an elusive state effect]
- Second symptom: 'we are pattering in place' [or, towards an anthropology of spatiotemporal entrapment]
- Living with Daytonitis
- Conviviality in the meantime [or, towards a critique of Dayton non-politics]
- Epilogue, shovelling and numbering for 'normal lives'.