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Beyond international intervention : politics of improvement in Serbia / Katarina Kušić.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kušić, Katarina, author.
- Series:
- Configurations (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
- Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nation-building--Serbia.
- Nation-building.
- Peace-building--Serbia.
- Peace-building.
- Serbia--Foreign relations.
- Serbia.
- Serbia--Politics and government.
- Serbia--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. Beyond International Intervention takes on the task of engaging with spaces and peoples not usually present in IR scholarship to rethink the very concept of "intervention" by paying close attention to how people actually experience and make sense of those efforts. In particular, the book offers a detailed engagement with ethnographic fieldwork in two policy areas in Serbia--agricultural policy and non-formal youth education. By engaging with subjects, the book not only enhances our understanding of intervention, but also uncovers the limitations of the concept. Katarina Kušić argues that the concept limits what we can observe and theorize, and it prevents researchers from engaging with the people living in spaces of intervention as coeval political subjects. As an alternative, she proposes to foreground improvement over "intervention." This reorientation enables researchers to trace hierarchies beyond the local/international dichotomy, expands fields of visibility beyond those prescribed by interventions themselves, and seriously considers the contradictions at the heart of liberalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472904952
- 0472904957
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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