PËRTEJ DISKURSIT MEDIKAL: NJË QASJE ANTROPOLOGJIKE NDAJ PËRJETIMIT TË HUMBJES SË FËMIJËVE TË ZHDUKUR NË KOSOVËN E PASLUFTËS
BEYOND MEDICAL DISCOURSE: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TOWARDS THE LOSS OF MISSING CHILDREN IN POST-WAR KOSOVA

Summary/Abstract: The Kosovo war of 1998-1999, has had an enduring impact particularly for those whose loved ones are still missing. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses on how the parents of the missing experience and cope with their loss fifteen years after the war. What is at the center of my argument is how medical models often emphasize bodily symptoms and experiences of loss rather than how this is socially constructed. Therefore, the article pays attention to the context, local practices and patterns of experiencing and coping with loss as well and the manner in which this appear to us not through some distinct action, but from the everyday life of people. The article aims to bring a more complex and diverse reality by discussing three individual stories and efforts: striving for recognition and compensation, memorization, and silence. These three stories are analyzed within the context of post-war Kosovo as well as through the axes of socioeconomic and gender, which together give direction to the narratives and practices undertaken to cope with the loss.

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