Yearnings in the meantime : 'normal lives' and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex

Author(s)

• Jansen, Stef

Bibliographic Information

Yearnings in the meantime : 'normal lives' and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex

Stef Jansen

（Dislocations, v. 15）

Berghahn, 2015

Other Title

Yearnings in the meantime : "normal lives" and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex

Note

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

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people's sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless "Meantime." Ethnographically investigating yearnings for "normal lives" in the European semi-periphery, it proposes fresh analytical tools to explore how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BB22320119
• ISBN:
  • 9781782386506
• LCCN: 2015003140
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 250 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HN639.S37
  • DC23 : 306.0949742
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Ethnology -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo
  • LCSH : Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA77281369