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  • Yearnings in the Meantime: 'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex

    (By Stef Jansen)

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    Author Stef Jansen
    “Book Descriptions: Shortly after the book's protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people's sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless -Meantime.- Ethnographically investigating yearnings for -normal lives- in the European semi-periphery, it proposes fresh analytical tools to explore how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.”

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