The Improvised State / RGS-IBG Book Series (ePub)

List of Figures ix Series Editors' Preface x Acknowledgements xi Abbreviations xiii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 States, Performance and Improvisation 4 1.2 Towards a Political Anthropology of the Bosnian State 7 1.3 Critical Geopolitics and Qualitative Research Strategy 13 1.4 Structure of the Book 16 2 The Improvised State 20 2.1 The State Idea 22 2.2 Performance and Performativity 26 2.3 Improvisation: Performed Resourcefulness 32 2.4 Improvising the State 38 3 Producing Bosnia and Herzegovina 41 3.1 Fault Line 44 3.2 Barrier 50 3.3 The Balkan Vortex 62 3.4 The General Framework Agreement for Peace 67 3.5 Conclusion 70 4 Performing Brèko District 72 4.1 Brèko District and Arbitration 75 4.2 Stability: Getting the Job Done 85 4.3 Security: Constructing Legality 91 4.4 Neutralization: Making People Think 97 4.5 Conclusion 102 5 Gentrifying Civil Society 107 5.1 Building Civil Society 111 5.2 Social Capital: The Autonomy of Civil Society 115 5.3 Cultural Capital: 'Don ' t Just Ask for Another Copy Machine!' 118 5.4 Beyond Gentrified Civil Society: Roma and Mjesne Zajednice 123 5.5 Conclusion 129 6 Enacting Justice 132 6.1 Spaces of Justice 134 6.2 Contesting the State 139 6.3 Enrolling Civil Society 145 6.4 Conclusion 153 7 Becoming European 156 7.1 Europeanization and the State 158 7.2 Nested Balkanism 162 7.3 Conclusion 166 8 Conclusion 169 References 179 Index 197

Alex Jeffrey is a University Lecturer in Human
Geography at the University of Cambridge. His research has focused
on the governance of post-conflict environments, particularly the
former Yugoslavia, and the role of non-governmental organizations
in fostering democracy. He is co-author, together with Joe Painter,
of Political Geography: An Introduction to Space and
Power (2009) and with Anoop Nayak on Geographical
Thought: An Introduction to Ideas in Human
Geography (2011).

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