Stef Jansen

Yearnings in the Meantime

'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex

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Produktbeschreibung

The first study to explicitly link up an interest in hope (through the concept of yearning) with a political economic analysis of the state. The first study to intervene conceptually in such work through an ethnographic analysis of everyday secular (rather than transcendent) hope as it appears in material practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781785338212
• ISBN-10: 1785338218
• Artikelnr.: 49805628

Autorenporträt

Stef Jansen is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is also the co-editor of Struggles for Home: Violence, Hope and the Movement of People (Berghahn 2008, with S. Löfving), and has conducted ethnographic research in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1996.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: [or, Towards an Anthropology of Shared Concerns]
PART I: FIGURING 'NORMAL LIVES'
Chapter 1. 'Normal Lives' [or, Towards an Anthropology of Yearning]
Chapter 2. Waiting for a Bus [or, Towards an Anthropology of Gridding]
Chapter 3. War-Time Gridding for 'Normal Lives' [or, Towards an
Anthropology of Hope for the State]
PART II: DIAGNOSING DAYTONITIS
Chapter 4. First Symptom: 'There Is No System' [or, Towards an Anthropology
of an Elusive State Effect]
Chapter 5. Second Symptom: 'We Are Pattering in Place' [or, Towards an
Anthropology of Spatiotemporal Entrapment]
PART III: LIVING WITH DAYTONITIS
Chapter 6. Conviviality in the Meantime [or, Towards a Critique of Dayton
Non-Politics]
Epilogue: Shovelling and Numbering for 'Normal Lives'
References
Index