Print version: Jansen, Stef. Yearnings in the meantime : ’normal lives’ and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2015 xii, 250 pages Dislocations ; Volume 15. ISBN 9781782386506
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index
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’.