Gender and Citizenship: Promises of Peace in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina

ISBN-13: 9781137593771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 220 str.

Maria-Adriana Deiana

Spis treści

1. Revisiting Dayton: Unfinished (Feminist) International Relations

1.1 Gendered Continuities and ruptures in the post-conflict moment 

1.2 A feminist critique of consociationalism and beyond: complicating Dayton 

1.3 Provoking citizenship through Feminist Interventions

1.3.1 On gender, ethnicity and nationalism: women’s conditional citizenship in the Nation 

1.3.2 1.3.1 Re-imagining citizenship as agentic, multi-layered and multidimensional

1.4 Taking Women’s Narratives Seriously: Research methodology and methods 1.4.1 Research Choices, Encounters and Challenges

1.5 Structure of the book

2. Trajectories of Women’s Citizenship from Socialism to the Bosnian War

2.1 Women’s Citizenship in the Former Yugoslavia: the legacy of state socialism.

2.2 Women’s citizenship after the fall: tracing continuities and ruptures.

2.3 Negotiating citizenship vis-à-vis the nation

2.4 Women’s agency and/in the Bosnian war: the politics of necessity and international aid

2.5 Conclusion

3. The Politics of Not/Belonging: Making sense of Post-Dayton exclusions

3.1 In Tito’s time: Nostalgia, Silences and Feminist Counter-History.

3.2 Outside belonging: the (im)possibility of a Bosnian-Herzegovinian identity

3.3 Of Feminists ..and Mothers: Disruptive Attachments

3.4 Complicating the tapestry: belonging in proximity to ethnonationalism

3.5 Conclusion

4. Women’s personal narratives and the multi-layered legacies of  war

4.1 Gender, Nation and the Contested Narratives on the Bosnian War

4.2 The legacy of war-time violence and women’s (in)visibility

4.3 War as a catalyst for action

4.4 Women working for women: the politics of small steps

4.5 Conclusion

5. Collective visions for citizenship and challenges of transversal politics as practice

5.1 The post-conflict condition: entrapment and hope

5.2 The ambivalent meanings of Post-Dayton civil society

5.3 Navigating Powerful social pressure

5.4 Ethno-national affiliation as a challenge 

5.5 Conclusions

6. Is another citizenship possible? Hopeful political practices in the Post-Dayton impasse

6.1 Critical Challenges and Feminist Futures

6.2 This is not my peace!   Spaces of citizenship through feminist art

6.3 DIY citizenship as hopeful political praxis

6.4 Conclusion

7. Conclusions

O autorze

​Maria-Adriana Deiana is a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland. Her research draws on feminist approaches to war and security. It focuses on gender dynamics of conflict and post-conflict transformation, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, EU border politics and peacekeeping.

Blurb

This book examines the remaking of women’s citizenship in the aftermath of conflict and international intervention.  It develops a feminist critique of consociationalism as the dominant model of post-conflict governance by tracking the gendered implications of the Dayton Peace Agreement. It illustrates how the legitimisation of ethnonationalist power enabled by the agreement has reduced citizenship to an all-encompassing logic of ethnonational belonging and implicitly reproduced its attendant patriarchal gender order. Foregrounding women’s diverse experiences, the book reveals gendered ramifications produced at the intersection of conflict, ethno-nationalism and international peacebuilding. Deploying a multidimensional feminist approach centred around women’s narratives of belonging, exclusion, and agency, this book offers a critical interrogation of the promises of peace and explores individual/collective efforts to re-imagine citizenship.

​Maria-Adriana Deiana is a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland.  Her research draws on feminist approaches to war and security. It focuses on gender dynamics of conflict and post-conflict transformation, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, EU border politics and peacekeeping.