Jansen, Stef,

Yearnings in the meantime : 'normal lives' and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex / Stef Jansen. - 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages). - Dislocations ; Volume 15 . - Dislocations ; Volume 15. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.

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'.

9781782386513


Ethnology--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo.
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo.


Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)--Social conditions--21st century.


Electronic books.

HN639.S37 / .J36 2015

306.0949742