Democratic Designs: International Intervention and Electoral Practices in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina - Hardcover

Coles, Kimberley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047209985X ISBN 13: 9780472099856

Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2007

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Book by Coles Kimberley

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Democratic Designs is a careful, detailed and thoughtful ethnography of electoral practices in one case of internationally imposed 'democracy.' Coles had access to the day-to-day practices of producing democratic elections, and recounts these in an accessible way. The account makes a number of important contributions to the growing anthropological literature on the sociality of bureaucracy - and internationalist bureaucracy in particular. - Annelise Riles, Professor of Law and Anthropology at Cornell University and author and editor of several books, including The Network Inside Out

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This work examines the world of humanitarian aid workers and the processes of democratization that they put into effect in Bosnia-Herzegovina. ""Democratic Designs"" is an ethnography of the practices of international intervention and democracy building. Coles examines both the lives of internationals and the work they performed in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, in order to demonstrate how democracy - as a set of meanings and practices - is built through routine, instrumental, and procedural actors like audit reports, signatures, voter registers, and election supervisors. Over a period covering five election cycles, Coles had unique access to electoral forms and reforms as they were put into practice, and documents exactly how the privileged life of the international - above the state institutions they were building and far from the realities of normal life in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina - interacted with their democratic works.

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• Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 047209985X
• ISBN 13: 9780472099856
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352