Ana Miskovska Kajevska

Feminist Activism at War (eBook, ePUB)

Belgrade and Zagreb Feminists in the 1990s

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Produktbeschreibung

This book describes, compares, explains, and contextualises the positionings, i.e. discourses and activities, which feminists in Belgrade, Serbia and Zagreb, Croatia produced in relation to the (post-)Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Two types of positionings are analysed: those which the feminists have produced on the (sexual) war violence and those which they have produced on each other.

Applying a Bourdieuian framework and using interviews with key feminist and peace activists in the region alongside a thorough examination of organisational documents and printed media articles, Ana MiSkovska Kajevska challenges the common suggestion that the outbreak of the war violence in 1991 led to the same reorganisation of the Belgrade and Zagreb feminist fields. She corrects the understanding that the activists in each city, who had up until then worked together without tensions, divided at the same time and in the same manner into antinationalists and nationalists and began clashing with each other because of the different war-related positionings. MiSkovska Kajevska explains further that the terms 'antinationalist' and 'nationalist' were not completely value-free and objective, and had different meanings attached to them. These designations were an essential part not only of the local and international efforts to stop the (sexual) war violence, but also of the struggle for legitimacy among the feminists in each city - endeavours in which many Western (feminist) academics, activists, and funders were involved, too.

In addition to providing insights into the situation in Croatia and Serbia, this book will also help increase the understanding of intra-feminist dynamics in other regions of the world which are dominated by nationalism and war violence, and where the work of the local feminists is closely intertwined with - and often dependent on - these activists' contacts with foreign academic, funding, activist, and/or political entities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315520759
• Artikelnr.: 48422061

Autorenporträt

Ana MiSkovska Kajevska is a researcher, peaceworker, and activist affiliated with the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Feminism at War: An Introduction
Chapter Two: Portrayals of Feminist NGOs
Chapter Three: A Time to Examine the Common Scholarly Narrative
Chapter Four: Positioning as a Process: Nine Episodes of Interaction
Chapter Five: Revisiting the 1990s: A View from a Distance?
Chapter Six: A Critical Novel Look at the Old Dynamics and Knowledge
Index