آرزوها در این میان: «زندگی‌های عادی» و دولت در یک مجتمع آپارتمانی سارایوو (جابجایی‌ها، ۱۵)

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. Soon after they moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, this book's protagonists 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. Introduction [or, towards an anthropology of shared concerns] Figuring 'normal lives' 'Normal lives' [or, towards an anthropology of yearning] Waiting for a bus [or, towards an anthropology of gridding] War-time gridding for 'normal lives' [or, towards an anthropology of hope for the state] Diagnosing Daytonitis First symptom: 'there is no system' [or, towards an anthropology of an elusive state effect] Second symptom: 'we are pattering in place' [or, towards an anthropology of spatiotemporal entrapment] Living with Daytonitis Conviviality in the meantime [or, towards a critique of Dayton non-politics] Epilogue, shovelling and numbering for 'normal lives'. Yearnings in the Meantime 2 DISLOCATIONS 3 Yearnings in the Meantime ‘Normal Lives’ and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex - Stef Jansen 4 Contents 6 Illustrations 8 Preface 10 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 14 PART I Figuring ‘Normal Lives’ 44 Chapter 1 – ‘Normal Lives’ 46 Chapter 2 – Waiting for a Bus 72 Chapter 3 – Wartime Gridding for ‘Normal Lives’ 100 PART II Diagnosing Daytonitis 134 Chapter 4 – First Symptom: ‘There Is No System’ 136 Chapter 5 – Second Symptom: ‘We Are Pattering in Place’ 170 PART III Living with Daytonitis 200 Chapter 6 – Conviviality in the Meantime 202 Epilogue 234 References 246 Index 256 An ethnographic account, this book looks into a Sarajevo apartment building as its inhabitants yearn for "normal lives," over a decade after the war and the disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia. Starting from everyday concerns, it freshly explores how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.