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

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Description for Democratic Designs: International Intervention and Electoral Practices in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina Paperback. Examines the world of humanitarian aid workers and the processes of democratization that they put into effect in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This work is an ethnography of the practices of international intervention and democracy building. Num Pages: 352 pages, 31 figures, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; JKSR; JPHF; JPHV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.

The signing of the Dayton Peace Accords brought more than peace to Bosnia-Herzegovina; it also brought an influx of international aid workers intent on helping Bosnia and Bosnians out of war. Democratic Designs examines the tool kit, experiences, and understandings of these "internationals" charged with bringing democracy to postconflict societies around the world.

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 postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, in order to demonstrate how democracy---as a set of meanings and practices---is built through routine, instrumental, and procedural actors ... Read more

"Perceptive anthropology meets international democracy promotion---the result is an arresting, original study of the controversial effort to build Bosnian democracy."
---Thomas Carothers, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

"Democracy projects have become a field of expertise and a tool of empire. Democratic Designs is a brilliant exploration of this paradoxical world."
---Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Politics, Director of International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University

"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

Kimberley Coles is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Redlands.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472069859
SKU
V9780472069859
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Kimberley Coles is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Redlands.

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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 ... Read more

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