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The simultaneous postwar and postsocialist transformation of healthcare and social security systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina created gaps, in which many people were left without support. Ethnographically exploring three humanitarian actions organized in a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 20, the article critically engages with an issue of how survival and wellbeing were enabled in this context. This article discusses “humanitarne akcije,” a practice present across former Yugoslav states, whereby relatives of people who need expensive medical treatments abroad, raise large sums of money. Their dissatisfactions imply that humanitarianism as an industry of aid can be criticisedįor failing to intervene in the global regimes of unequal redistribution of resources in a

Medicines, tissues and organs, and so forth (the unjust redistribution of resources). Health-care insurance, unavailability of medical treatments, unequal allocation of Them (the terms of their sociocultural recognition) and more the shrinking public They criticised less how other people perceived Pushed them to initiate humanitarne akcije. The lack of organised health care and social security in Bosnia and Herzegovina that Second, those who needed help through humanitarne akcije strongly criticised The separation of infrastructures, which enable and manage lives of the ‘savers’ and Life’ in international humanitarian projects in emergencies may be the product of With the international humanitarianism, this paper suggests that the notion of ‘bare That lives of the ‘helpers’ and ‘helped’ in humanitarne akcije were understoodĪs immersed in the intense talk and gossip of the town and as exposed to the sociopoliticalĮnvironment troubled in the same way. Ethnographically tracking the course of a humanitarna akcija organised in oneīosnian town, this paper makes two related points. Treatments abroad – this paper explores humanitarianism and its understandings of – a local form of raising monetary donations to people who need medical

Through an ethnographic focus on humanitarne akcije in Bosnia and Herzegovina