Politics of Relations - How Self Government, Infrastructures, Care Transform State in Serbia

Rethinking the contributions of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology for political ethnography, the Politics of Relations elaborates its relational approach to the state along four interlaced axes of research - embeddedness, boundary work, modalities and strategic selectivity - that enable thick comparisons across spatio-temporal scales of power.

In Serbia local experiences of self-government, infrastructure and care motivate its citizens to "become the state" while cursing it heartily. While both officials and citizens strive for a state that enables a "normal life," they navigate the increasingly illiberal politics enacted by national parties and tolerated by trans-national donors.

About the author

André Thiemann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Department of Ecological Anthropology at the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is presently Visiting Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil on the project ‘Materialities of Value: Comparing Grassroots Economics in the Global South and East’.

Product details

• Authors: Andre Thiemann, André Thiemann
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781805395515
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-551-5
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: EASA Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Serbia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Social and cultural anthropology, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems, Political and Economic Anthropology; Sociology