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

Author/creator Gilbert, Andrew
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoIthaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Descriptionxii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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 (pages 231-243) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019046922
ISBN9781501750267 (hardcover)
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