Bosnian Fluxes

"Bosnian Fluxes challenges the static analytical frameworks of postsocialist, postcolonial, and postconflict that commonly preordain imaginations of possible life since the Cold War. Instead, the editors foreground multiplicities of kinetic agitation, or flux, as being at the heart of perpetual becoming. A stellar line-up of contributors showcase how categories of belonging, caring, and reckoning have porous membranes where socio-political relationships are in flux, sedimenting and solidifying in places while vibrantly fizzing toward novel connections in others.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is the spatio-temporal coordinate from which to launch a wide-ranging analysis of how fluxes of people, environments, technologies, institutions, and politics traverse the post-Cold War world. As such, this volume will appeal far beyond its regional grounding, weaving as it does a rich tapestry of ethnography and theory that will appeal to scholars of political anthropology and nation-building, social theory, and humanitarian policy."

- Daniel M. Knight, University of St Andrews, author of Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen.

"Unlike many works that resort to “crisis” or “deadlock” to explain postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, this wide-ranging collection of essays shifts our attention to the underlying social currents that make up everyday life in this place. By exploring a variety of interrelated subjects, from the economies of care-giving to the politics of identifying missing persons, this volume makes a major contribution to a better understanding not only of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also of global connections that shape our post-Cold War world."

- Edin Hajdarpasic, Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago, author of Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840–1914.