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Guarding the goods, producing the state: Analysis of narratives of customs officers

Author(s) -

Dejana Kostić

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

glasnik etnografskog instituta

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2334-8259

pISSN - 0350-0861

DOI - 10.2298/gei1701065k

Subject(s) - narrative , sovereignty , serbian , bosnian , state (computer science) , corporate governance , power (physics) , political science , work (physics) , political economy , business , sociology , law , engineering , finance , algorithm , computer science , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , politics

By focusing on narratives of customs officers from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, I examine how technological and organizational change of customs work influences governance and sovereignty of the state and how customs officers produced a specific imaginary of the state through their narratives. Supporting the contention that the transnational flow of goods and people restructures rather than undermines the state power, the Serbian and Bosnian cases reveal how technological and organizational change of customs work opened up new arenas for an expression of state sovereignty and new modes of governance. Furthermore, I analyze narratives about unauthorized actions, or shady business as customs officers call it, as a mechanism through which “the state” is discursively constructed

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