Slovak Civil Service: hard(ly) working(?)

Author(s): Jakub Dovcik

Type: Photograph

Department: Department of Anthropology

Exhibit no: 62


An analogue photograph of an office in the Presidential Palace, the top of the civil service pyramid, depicts how does civil service (not) work. An ethnographic study of Slovak civil service explores the naivete impossibility of Weberian and Foucaultian ideal models of bureaucracy in setting of a post-socialist country.