WOMEN IN NORTHERN KOSOVO – DAILY LIFE IN BETWEEN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DIVISION
WOMEN IN NORTHERN KOSOVO – DAILY LIFE IN BETWEEN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DIVISION

Author(s): Ivana Aritonović
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: post-conflict daily life; re-traditionalization; women’s roles; ethnic division; patriarchal family structures
Summary/Abstract: The topic of a daily life in Serbian sociology became very important during the last decade of 20th century. The reason for that might be the decay of SFRY, Serbia being a constituent part of it, intensive pauperization, economic sanctions, and the influx of more than half a million of refugees to Serbia from other Yugoslav republics. Such turbulent socio-economic circumstances caused changes in people’s everyday life. Impoverished population looked for the ways to survive in a dignified manner. All those changes which were specific for social actors at that time were thoroughly studied by sociologists. During the beginning of 1990s, few collections of works on daily life have been published, and such trend continued in the first decade of the new millennium. That lead to an observation, as Anđelka Milić pointed out: “One specific sociological orientation gained confirmation, which, in our terms, is getting features of a special sociologic school of thought on a research of empirical world of sociality” (Milić, 2004: 8).

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