Yearnings in the Meantime

'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-821-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Reihe: Dislocations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jansen, Stef

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jansen, Stef
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.