Achieving the Ordinary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19005618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keziah Conrad (Northern Arizona University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conflict and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2164-4543 • E-ISSN: 2164-4551 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/arcs.2019.050101 |
| OpenAlex | W2904772257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
In Bosnia, 20 years aft er a war of ethnic cleansing, mixed-ethnicity families swim against the stream of nationalist separatism that insists all Bosnians should be neatly sorted into ethnic categories. When asked about their experiences, however, mixed families in Sarajevo during fieldwork from 2011 to 2012 repeatedly insisted that they were just “ordinary,” “normal” families. In this article, I look closely at an ordinary evening in the life of one such family, examining how they achieve this atmosphere of everydayness within which ordinary kin relationships are sustained despite the volatility of differences in ethnic and religious affiliation. Using a conversation analytic approach and building on the work of ordinary ethics theorists, I argue that the sense of being an ordinary family is an accomplishment constituted through active intersubjective work
Conversation · Ethnic group · Nationalism · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Communication · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Multilingual Education and Policy
The Serbs
A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology
Ordinary Ethics
Sequence Organization in Interaction
Distinction
The Risk of War
Sarajevo Under Siege
Being Muslim the Bosnian Way
People and things in the ethnography of borders
Life and Words
"Once We Had a House"
Instrumental Borders of Gender and Religious Conversion in the Balkans
Silence as a Response to Everyday Violence
Nationalism and the Political Use and Abuse of Religion
The apparitions of the Virgin Mary of Medjugorje
The cultural structuring of mealtime socialization
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
Generational positions at a family dinner
Joking Avoidance
Dismembering Yugoslavia
On Not Dating Just Anybody
Bathroom Mixing
This is our little hajj
These Things Continue
The burden of being exemplary
Separateness as a Relation
Antagonistic Tolerance
Justice and rape on the periphery
Census and Sensibilities in Sarajevo
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |