Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies: Promises of Peace in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina

Deiana, Maria-Adriana

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-05-11

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137593771

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59378-8

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 220