Feminist Encounters in Statebuilding

This volume provides one of the first comprehensive feminist readings of international statebuilding, with a specific focus on the case of Kosovo.

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Feminist Encounters of Statebuilding Section I - Kosovo: The Unwomanly Face of the War 2. Subversive Stories of Women Activists as Counter-Memory: I Was Considered a Stubborn 3. How Women KLA Combatants Complicated Notions of Patriarchy and Masculinity 4. Women's Individual and Collective Labour of Care during the Kosovo War: The Overlooked Heroines 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' 6. Gender Violence, Recognition and State Responsibilities Section III - (Re)making Kosovo. (Re)making Gender 7. Reconfiguring Womanhood: The Making of Gender and the State in the Newly Independent Kosovo 8. Contesting and/or Legitimising Kosovo's Independence: The Case of Women MPs in the National Parliament of Kosovo 9. Conclusion: Other(ed) Ways to Understand Statebuilding