Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Čarna Brković New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. 196 pp.

Brown, Keith M.

doi:10.1111/aman.13289

Cited by 8 publications

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“…Especially in contexts where formal types of insurances and support mechanisms are absent, associations and social networks committed to individual and community welfare are essential to save lives and alleviate suffering (Bankoff, 2007;Horst, 2006). Brković (2016Brković ( , 2017 adopts the concept of 'vernacular humanitarianism' as a 'humanitarianism from within' rather than from below to indicate that the lives of 'savers' and 'saved' are exposed to the same sociopolitical environment. Brković (2016) suggests that professional and vernacular humanitarianisms are similar in their understanding of shared responsibility for the lives and well-being of other people, they operate outside the Westphalian state-centric system, and they share a moral sentiment of compassion, ethics and politics.…”

Section: Humanitarianism Embedded In Social Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Conceptualisation of Relational Humanitarianism

Brun,

Horst

2023

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs

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In this article we suggest that the call for widening participation as part of the quest for a more localised humanitarianism has overlooked the clash of ethical registers that this would entail. We show that the formal script of the professionalised humanitarian system operates with an individualised ethics, while multiple other actors that exist alongside the humanitarian system operate with a relational ethical register. Based on a literature review on civic humanitarianism and humanitarianism embedded in social practice, we explore dimensions of the web of social interaction within which humanitarian practices often take place. We ask how to conceptualise these humanitarian relationships when relationships in themselves are understood as compromising humanitarian principles. Inspired by decolonial perspectives and relational ontologies and ethics, we then identify key dimensions of a relational humanitarianism: solidarity, responsibility and justice; identity and belonging; social distance and proximity; and temporality. In conclusion we suggest that for calls for localisation to succeed in genuinely changing power relations and practices, better understanding and recognition of relational ethical registers that operate alongside the formal script of the professionalised humanitarian system is required.

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Section: Humanitarianism Embedded In Social Practicementioning

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Towards a Conceptualisation of Relational Humanitarianism

Brun,

Horst

2023

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs

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“…The days of employment as a right are not only gone but erased. Today, access to basic infrastructures of life such as jobs and healthcare is precarious and depends on favors (Brković 2017). Indeed, being and feeling indebted is constitutive of Bosnian postwar condition (Jašarević 2017).…”

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The Inheritance of Militarization: Toxic Gifts, Furtive Critique, and Survivance in Post-War Bosnia

Hodžić

2023

Catalyst

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To think of Bosnia is to think of war, but militarization precedes and exceeds war, as socialist Yugoslavia located much of its military industry here. The toxic gift of socialist militarization enables people in a small industrial town to survive and stay home at the same time as unfiltered toxic waste makes this home less habitable, poisoning their beloved river. The residents, this article shows, are equally people of the military factory and people of the river, and have to reconcile this dual inheritance. Historicizing the gendered inheritance of socialist militarization and contextualizing neoliberal dispossession and deregulation, this article examines how residents articulate a furtive critique of industrial toxicity in the extended domestic sphere, by which I mean the intimate gatherings in people’s yards and on neighborhood walks and riverside benches that comprise the interstices between public and private where much of Bosnian life is lived. Ethnographically, the article attends to the felt embodiments of dual riverine and militarized inheritance, illuminating furtive complaints of toxicity and poignant fragments of memory told in passing in the extended domestic sphere. Here, residents reclaim their inheritance of the river, planting seeds of dissent and survivance.

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“…Многу постапки во бирократските системи немаат смисла, честопати правилата не се јасни, потребните документи не се јавно објавени, работното време не е јавно и јасно одбележано. Во реалноста, бирократските системи, покрај нивната теоретски ефикасна и рационална организација, се често арбитрарни (Gupta 2012: 14) или двосмислени (Tuckett 2015;Brković 2017). Непредвидливоста на бирократските системи е присутна и во Македонија -често се слушаат искуства за "враќање од шалтер", долги периоди на чекање, луѓе што влегуваат преку ред итн.…”

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“Бирократските Интеракции И Колективните Сеќавања За Социјалистичка Југославија”

Старова Тахир

2023

EAZ

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Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Čarna Brković New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. 196 pp.

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Towards a Conceptualisation of Relational Humanitarianism

Towards a Conceptualisation of Relational Humanitarianism

The Inheritance of Militarization: Toxic Gifts, Furtive Critique, and Survivance in Post-War Bosnia

“Бирократските Интеракции И Колективните Сеќавања За Социјалистичка Југославија”

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