
The Improvised State
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* Provides a major contribution to recent academic debates as to the nature of the state after violent conflict, and offers invaluable insights into state building
* Introduces the idea of state improvisation, where improvisation refers to a process of both performance and resourcefulness
* Uses the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu to explore how powerful agencies have attempted to present a coherent vision of Bosnia and Herzegovina following the conflict 1992-5
* Advances our understanding of the Bosnian state by focusing on the practices of statecraft fostered in the post-Dayton era
* Research based on four periods of residential fieldwork in Bosnia, which allowed a detailed analysis of political practices in the country
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Series Editors' Preface x
Acknowledgements xi
Abbreviations xiii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 States, Performance and Improvisation 4
1.2 Towards a Political Anthropology of the Bosnian State 7
1.3 Critical Geopolitics and Qualitative Research Strategy13
1.4 Structure of the Book 16
2 The Improvised State 20
2.1 The State Idea 22
2.2 Performance and Performativity 26
2.3 Improvisation: Performed Resourcefulness 32
2.4 Improvising the State 38
3 Producing Bosnia and Herzegovina 41
3.1 Fault Line 44
3.2 Barrier 50
3.3 The Balkan Vortex 62
3.4 The General Framework Agreement for Peace 67
3.5 Conclusion 70
4 Performing Brèko District 72
4.1 Brèko District and Arbitration 75
4.2 Stability: Getting the Job Done 85
4.3 Security: Constructing Legality 91
4.4 Neutralization: Making People Think 97
4.5 Conclusion 102
5 Gentrifying Civil Society 107
5.1 Building Civil Society 111
5.2 Social Capital: The Autonomy of Civil Society 115
5.3 Cultural Capital: 'Don ' t Just Ask for AnotherCopy Machine!' 118
5.4 Beyond Gentrified Civil Society: Roma and Mjesne Zajednice123
5.5 Conclusion 129
6 Enacting Justice 132
6.1 Spaces of Justice 134
6.2 Contesting the State 139
6.3 Enrolling Civil Society 145
6.4 Conclusion 153
7 Becoming European 156
7.1 Europeanization and the State 158
7.2 Nested Balkanism 162
7.3 Conclusion 166
8 Conclusion 169
References 179
Index 197
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