Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina ─ Semiperipheral Entanglements

This book turns the analytical lens on lived socialities in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than a decade after the 1990s war and almost two decades after the end of Yugoslav socialism. Tracing people's social practices and concerns in terms of their livelihoods, political representation and legitimacy, memory and witnessing, care, neighbourliness and solidarity, the ethnographic studies contained in this volume offer intricate insights into the entanglement of lives in this European semiperiphery.

Addressing the ways in which different people in supervised Bosnia and Herzegovina make sense of their current predicaments against the background of domestic and foreign policies, this book aims to open up an interdisciplinary conversation on the contribution of ethnographic research to understandings of social processes in South East Europe. It also opens up avenues for comparative work by providing diagnostic perspectives on the issues of political subjectivity, liberal representative democracy, globalising neoliberalising capitalism and knowledge production. Combining ethnographic sensitivity, an awareness of processes on different scales, and compassionate critique, this book will be of interest to students and scholars working in anthropology, sociology, European politics and development studies.

Stef Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK.

Carna Brkovic is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany.

Vanja Celebicic is Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University, UK.