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008			180924s2019 enk b 001 0 eng d
020			_a1526126257 (hbk.)
020			_a9781526126252 (hbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)1053902828
050			_aHD5797.85 _b.O96 2019
100	1		_aOzolina, Liene.
245	1	0	_aPolitics of waiting : _bworkfare, post-Soviet austerity and the ethics of freedom / _cLiene Ozolin̦a.
260			_aManchester : _bManchester University Press, _c2019.
300			_ax, 150 p.
490	1		_aPolitical ethnography
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aSeries editor's preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Waiting as an organising logic -- Temporalities of austerity -- The anxious subject -- The will to live -- Spaces of the expelled -- Epilogue: waiting for freedom -- References -- Index.
520			_aThis book is an ethnography of the politics of waiting. While the global political economy is usually imagined through metaphors of acceleration and speed, the book reveals waiting as the shadow temporality of the contemporary logic of governance. The ethnographic site for this analysis is a state-run unemployment office in Latvia. This site not only grants the author unique access to observing everyday implementation of social assistance programmes that use acceleration and waiting as forms of control, but also serves as a vantage point from which to compare Western and post-Soviet welfare policy designs. The book thus contributes to current debates across sociology and anthropology around the increasingly coercive forms of social control, by examining ethnographic forms of statecraft that have emerged over several decades of neoliberalism. The ethnographic perspective reveals how time shapes a nation's identity, as well as one's sense of self, in culturally specific ways. The book traces how both the Soviet past, with its narratives of building communist at an accelerated speed while waiting patiently for a better future, as well as the post-Soviet nationalist narratives of waiting as a sacrifice for freedom, come to play a role in this particular case of the politics of waiting.
650		4	_aUnemployment.
650		4	_aUnemployment _zLatvia.
650		4	_aPublic welfare.
650		4	_aPublic welfare _zLatvia.
650		4	_aPublic welfare _xPolitical aspects.
650		4	_aPublic welfare _xPolitical aspects _zLatvia.
830		0	_aPolitical and administrative ethnography.
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