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Politike sećanja, feminizam i solidarnost nakon sukoba u bivšoj Jugoslaviji
Politics of Memory, Feminism, and Solidarity after the Conflict in former Yugoslavia

Author(s): Deana Jovanović
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Keywords: feminism; solidarity; memory; gender; Otherness; moral responsibility

Summary/Abstract: In this article I point to idea of solidarity in feminist accounts of facing the past projects after the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. While I indicate that solidarity plays an important stance in conceptualizing the notion of moral responsibility and feminism, I suggest that feminist approaches to facing the past need to reconsider the notion of Otherness, constructed within categories of gender. h is aspect has been neglected in feminist accounts of facing the past. I illustrate the differences between women through an analysis of different memory narratives of women in Serbia who were in particular ways connected with the conflicts. In the conclusion I posit that complexities, as well as a dialogue between dif erent Others within the same collective and category of gender need to be included while theorizing solidarity in the context of facing the past, in order to confront various (political) paradigms of exclusion in Serbia.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 161-181
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian