PARADOXES OF PROJECT SUBJECTIVITY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION AND RECONFIGURATIONS OF WORK
PARADOXES OF PROJECT SUBJECTIVITY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION AND RECONFIGURATIONS OF WORK
Author(s): Nejra Nuna ČengićSubject(s): Labor relations, Economic policy, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Socio-Economic Research
Published by: NEW EUROPE COLLEGE - Institute for Advanced Studies
Keywords: project based employment; international intervention; precarity; post fordist affect; yearning for ‘normal life’; neoliberal agency;
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the relationship between international intervention in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and reconfigurations of labor. Positioned primarily against permanent publicly funded jobs, still widely regarded as a norm, short term project based employment under the umbrella of a postwar humanitarian, peacebuilding, democratizing intervention is marked by specific forms of precarity, living from project to project (along with certain degree of privilege). Based on qualitative research amongst people engaged in internationally funded projects, the study asks: what changes has such employment produced in understandings of work as such, life trajectories and subjectivity?
Journal: New Europe College Yearbook
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 31-59
- Page Count: 29
- Language: English
