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1 online resource |
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Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding |
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Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Feminist Encounters of Statebuilding in Kosovo -- Building Peace, Building States, Reproducing Patriarchy -- Feminist Encounters With the State -- Feminist Encounters With Statebuilding -- Kosovo: Contested Statebuilding -- Outlining the Volume -- References -- Section I Kosovo: The Unwomanly Face of the War -- 2 Subversive Stories of Women Activists as Counter-Memory: "I Was Considered a Stubborn" -- Introduction -- A Note On Method, Oral History and Memory-Work -- Stories of Everyday Resistance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 How Women KLA Combatants Complicated Notions of Patriarchy and Masculinity -- Introduction -- The Importance of Decolonial Feminism in the Albanian Context -- Gender Dynamics in Kosovo in the 1990s -- The Role of Women Combatants of the KLA -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Women's Individual and Collective Labour of Care During the Kosovo War: The Overlooked Heroines -- Introduction -- The Impact of War On Women -- Care Work -- Ethics of Wartime Care Work -- Kosovar Women's Lived Experiences in Wartime -- Care Work Through Networks, Food and Shelter -- Conclusion -- References -- Section II Places and Spaces of Women in War and Peace -- 5 On the Lack of Women's Representation in the Museum of Kosovo: The Paradox of the "Goddess On the Throne" -- Introduction -- A Historical Overview of the National Museum of Kosovo -- Masculinity and the National Museum of Kosovo: Excluding Women From the National Story -- The Conundrum of the Goddess On the Throne -- Conclusion: An Opportunity for Inclusion? -- Note -- References -- 6 Gender Violence, Recognition and State Responsibilities -- Introduction -- On Rape and War -- The Impact of Group Processes On War Rape Consequences in Post-War Periods -- Study 1: Recognition of War Rape as an Instrument to Validate Victims' Truth and Innocence -- Study 2: The Law Amendment: From Rejection and Threats to Recognition -- Study 3: War Rape Recognition Discourses in the Parliament of Kosova -- The Law Is a Man: Rejection/support of the Law Through Gender Norms -- Distinctive Repertoires -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Section III (Re)making Kosovo. (Re)making Gender -- 7 The Making of Gender and the State in the Newly Independent Kosovo: Reconfiguring Womanhood -- Introduction -- The Gendering of National Identities Before Independence -- "The New Kosovar Woman" -- Anticipating the Disconnect: The Case of Jeta -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Contesting And/or Legitimising Kosovo's Independence: The Case of Women MPs in the National Parliament of Kosovo -- Introduction -- On Feminism, Nationalism and Discourse -- Discourses of Challenging Kosovo's Statehood -- Discourses of Legitimation of Kosovo's Statehood -- Between Contestation and Legitimation of Kosovo's Statehood: A Representational Grey Area? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 Conclusion: Other(ed) Ways to Understand Statebuilding -- Where Are the Women? -- Open Spaces for More Diverse Voices -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This volume provides one of the first comprehensive feminist readings of international statebuilding, with a specific focus on the case of Kosovo. Rather than simply showing how the state in Kosovo is being built by and through women and feminist encounters, this volume is interested to problematize women and feminist subjectivities vis-a-vis the state and statebuilding. The book challenges three main arguments related to the processes and subjects of statebuilding in Kosovo. First, the academic literature on Kosovo has a tendency to take the international intervention of 1999 as the originary point of statebuilding processes in Kosovo. Second, and relatedly, given Kosovo's unprecedented exposure to Western intervention and statebuilding, the majority of works start from the presumption that liberal interventionism in Kosovo (and elsewhere) is normatively more progressive than the previous system, and that the liberal interventionism and statebuilding are naturally gender progressive and gender-equal. The third argument has to do with the existing legal architecture on gender and women's rights in contemporary Kosovo. The aim of the volume is to, on the one hand, problematize the evidence against the backdrop of everyday manifestations and/or performances of statebuilding and on the other hand interrogate the co-constitutive gender aspect. In terms of methodology, the volume brings together contributions that rely on traditional and multi-sited ethnography, and narrative research rooted in projects and initiatives in Kosovo. This allows the contributors to unearth new and silenced actors, entry points, subjects and subjectivities in processes of and related to statebuilding in Kosovo; feminist frictions and challenges to statebuilding in Kosovo; as well as encounters of heteronormative statebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, Balkan politics, feminisms, and International Relations, in general"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Biography |
Vjosa Musliu is Assistant Professor of international relations at the Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is also a co-series editor of the Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding series. Itziar Mujika Chao is a faculty member at the Department of Political Science and affiliated researcher at the Hegoa Institute for International Cooperation and Development Studies, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
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Women -- Political activity -- Kosovo (Republic)
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Nation-building -- Kosovo (Republic)
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Kosovo (Republic) -- Politics and government -- 2008-
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
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| Added Author |
Musliu, Vjosa, editor.
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Mujika Chao, Itziar, 1985- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Feminist encounters in statebuilding Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9781032536484 (DLC) 2023051475 |
| ISBN |
9781003412960 (ebook) |
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1003412963 (ebook) |
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9781040015216 (electronic bk. : PDF) |
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1040015212 (electronic bk. : PDF) |
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104001528X (electronic bk. : EPUB) |
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9781040015285 (electronic bk.) |
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9781032536484 (hardback) |
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9781032536491 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781003412960 doi |
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