ABSTRACT:Thousands of people around the world are injured or killed every year by landmines and unexploded ordnance, whether in active or former zones of conflict. This article explores how the after effects of war, materialized in military waste (unexploded landmines, shrapnel, and bullets), transform forms of life in a post-war polity. It elucidates how the ongoing presence of military waste radically transforms the environment and the very conditions of liveability for those who dwell in such spaces many years after the actual conflict has finished. Situated in impoverished rural areas of postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, I offer an ethnographic elucidation of the social life of military waste and its entanglement in people's attempts to remake livelihoods and reengage with their environment in the aftermath of the Bosnian war (1992–1995) that has resulted in pervasive politicization and privatization of social redistribution, and has given rise to an unprecedented degree of precarity. My aim is to document how the ongoing presence of land-mines and military waste renders the landscape and peoples' livelihoods not only radically uncertain and distressing, but also often indeterminate, and thus open to the generation of unexpected forms of engagement, cohabitation, and value creation. By treating military waste as indeterminate, I ask what forms, practices, and potential for value-creation military waste engenders in a particular spatio-temporal configuration of postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. By tracking the emerging activities surrounding land use and value creation in timber forest contaminated by military waste, I show how this invisibly dangerous landscape gives rise to new ways of engaging with the forest's economic potential vis-à-vis economic precarity in the postwar period. Ultimately, the article suggests how the subjective experience of fear gives rise to multiple modes of valuation, for people whose lives and the surrounding environment are mediated by experiences and remainders of conflict.

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生活在前线：战后波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的不确定性、价值和军事浪费

摘要：世界各地每年都有数千人因地雷和未爆弹药而受伤或死亡，无论是在活跃地区还是以前的冲突地区。本文探讨了战争的后遗症，在军事废物（未爆炸的地雷、弹片和子弹）中具体化，如何改变战后政体中的生活方式。它阐明了军事废物的持续存在如何从根本上改变了环境以及实际冲突结束多年后居住在这些空间中的人们的宜居条件。位于战后波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的贫困农村地区，我对军事废料的社会生活及其与人们生活的纠葛进行了民族志阐释。波斯尼亚战争（1992 年至 1995 年）导致社会再分配普遍政治化和私有化，并导致前所未有的不稳定程度。我的目标是记录地雷和军事废料的持续存在如何使景观和人们的生计不仅从根本上变得不确定和令人痛苦，而且往往是不确定的，从而导致产生意想不到的接触、同居和创造价值。通过将军事废物视为不确定，我询问了在战后波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那的特定时空结构中，军事废物价值创造的形式、做法和潜力。通过跟踪被军事废料污染的木材林中土地利用和价值创造的新兴活动，我展示了这种无形的危险景观如何产生新的方式来利用森林的经济潜力，而不是战后时期的经济不稳定。最终，这篇文章提出了恐惧的主观体验如何引发多种评估模式，对于那些生活和周围环境由经历和冲突剩余部分介导的人。