Gender and Citizenship

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.

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
1.Revisiting Dayton: Unfinished (Feminist) International Relations1.1Gendered Continuities and ruptures in the post-conflict moment 1.2A feminist critique of consociationalism and beyond: complicating Dayton 1.3Provoking citizenship through Feminist Interventions1.3.1On gender, ethnicity and nationalism: women's conditional citizenship in the Nation 1.3.21.3.1 Re-imagining citizenship as agentic, multi-layered and multidimensional1.4Taking Women's Narratives Seriously: Research methodology and methods 1.4.1 Research Choices, Encounters and Challenges1.5Structure of the book
2.Trajectories of Women's Citizenship from Socialism to the Bosnian War2.1Women's Citizenship in the Former Yugoslavia: the legacy of state socialism.2.2Women's citizenship after the fall: tracing continuities and ruptures.2.3Negotiating citizenship vis-à-vis the nation2.4Women's agency and/in the Bosnian war: the politics of necessity and international aid2.5Conclusion
3.The Politics of Not/Belonging: Making sense of Post-Dayton exclusions3.1In Tito's time: Nostalgia, Silences and Feminist Counter-History.3.2Outside belonging: the (im)possibility of a Bosnian-Herzegovinian identity3.3Of Feminists ..and Mothers: Disruptive Attachments3.4Complicating the tapestry: belonging in proximity to ethnonationalism3.5Conclusion
4.Women's personal narratives and the multi-layered legacies of war4.1Gender, Nation and the Contested Narratives on the Bosnian War4.2The legacy of war-time violence and women's (in)visibility4.3War as a catalyst for action4.4Women working for women: the politics of small steps4.5Conclusion
5.Collective visions for citizenship and challenges of transversal politics as practice5.1The post-conflict condition: entrapment and hope5.2The ambivalent meanings of Post-Dayton civil society5.3Navigating Powerful social pressure5.4Ethno-national affiliation as a challenge 5.5Conclusions
6.Is another citizenship possible? Hopeful political practices in the Post-Dayton impasse6.1Critical Challenges and Feminist Futures6.2This is not my peace! Spaces of citizenship through feminist art6.3DIY citizenship as hopeful political praxis6.4Conclusion
7.Conclusions