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International intervention and the problem of legitimacy : encounters in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina / Andrew C. Gilbert.

Author/creator Gilbert, Andrew author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Copyright Notice ©2020
Descriptionxii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Interlude : International Authority and Bosnia after Dayton -- The Limits of Foreign Authority : Publicity and the Political Logic of Ambivalence -- The Uses of History : Recontextualization and International Intervention -- Interlude : Field Sites, Field Methods, Field Contexts -- Doing Things with Ethnicity -- From Humanitarianism to Humanitarianization : Managing the Instabilities of International Aid -- Entextualization and the Making of International Authority.
Abstract "This book argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, thereby revealing the open-ended, innovative, and unpredictable nature of international intervention that is usually omitted from the ordered representations of the technocratic vision and the confident assertions of many critiques"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Gilbert, Andrew, International intervention and the problem of legitimacy. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020 9781501750274
LCCN 2019046922
ISBN9781501750267
ISBN1501750267 hardcover
ISBNelectronic publication
ISBNelectronic book

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