Yearnings in the meantime
Subtitle: 'normal lives' and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex
By: Stef Jansen
Edition: First Edition.
Series: Dislocations -- Volume 15
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781782386506; 9781782386513
Subjects: Social conditions; Ethnology; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction [or, towards an anthropology of shared concerns]; title: Figuring 'normal lives'; title: 'Normal lives' [or, towards an anthropology of yearning]; title: Waiting for a bus [or, towards an anthropology of gridding]; title: War-time gridding for 'normal lives' [or, towards an anthropology of hope for the state]; title: Diagnosing Daytonitis; title: First symptom: 'there is no system' [or, towards an anthropology of an elusive state effect]; title: Second symptom: 'we are pattering in place' [or, towards an anthropology of spatiotemporal entrapment]; title: Living with Daytonitis; title: Conviviality in the meantime [or, towards a critique of Dayton non-politics]; title: Epilogue, shovelling and numbering for 'normal lives'.