The Community of the Dispossessed: Women's Peace Coalition
Abstract
The text considers the possibility of establishing and maintaining alternative communities, taking as an example the Women's Peace Coalition between Kosovo Women Network and the Serbian Women in Black network. The principal question put forward is whether communities that surpass identitarian belonging are possible, and how these communities relate to “communities” determined territorially, nationally (by a nation state), as well as how they relate to artificial and symbolic supranational bodies. The main aim is the examination of the political potential of a community that wishes to be grounded on the logic of peace and the rejection of the logic of possession (following the slogan “people, not territories”). A community of women activists in the shape of the Women's Peace Coalition is defined as a community of the dispossessed, a term developed following the work of Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou. This pregnant philosophical concept is introduced in order to offer a new approach... to the context of an ambivalent, divided, inoperative state, with long-festering wounds of war.
Keywords:
community / dispossession / Women's Peace Coalition / Kosovo Women's Network / Women in BlackSource:
Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations Figuring out the Enemy, 2019, 215-225Publisher:
- Routledge, London; Southeast European Studies Series
Funding / projects:
- Figura neprijatelja: preosmišljavanje srpsko-albanskih odnosa, Regionalni program podrške istraživanjima u oblasti društvenih nauka na Zapadnom Balkanu (RRPP) / Figuring out the Enemy: Re-imagining Serbian-Albanian Relations, RRPP - Regional Research Promotion Programme - Western Balkans
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IFDTTY - CHAP AU - Zaharijević, Adriana PY - 2019 UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2176 AB - The text considers the possibility of establishing and maintaining alternative communities, taking as an example the Women's Peace Coalition between Kosovo Women Network and the Serbian Women in Black network. The principal question put forward is whether communities that surpass identitarian belonging are possible, and how these communities relate to “communities” determined territorially, nationally (by a nation state), as well as how they relate to artificial and symbolic supranational bodies. The main aim is the examination of the political potential of a community that wishes to be grounded on the logic of peace and the rejection of the logic of possession (following the slogan “people, not territories”). A community of women activists in the shape of the Women's Peace Coalition is defined as a community of the dispossessed, a term developed following the work of Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou. This pregnant philosophical concept is introduced in order to offer a new approach to the context of an ambivalent, divided, inoperative state, with long-festering wounds of war. PB - Routledge, London; Southeast European Studies Series T2 - Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations Figuring out the Enemy T1 - The Community of the Dispossessed: Women's Peace Coalition SP - 215 EP - 225 DO - 10.4324/9781351273169 ER -
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Zaharijević, A.. (2019). The Community of the Dispossessed: Women's Peace Coalition. in Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations Figuring out the Enemy Routledge, London; Southeast European Studies Series., 215-225. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351273169
Zaharijević A. The Community of the Dispossessed: Women's Peace Coalition. in Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations Figuring out the Enemy. 2019;:215-225. doi:10.4324/9781351273169 .
Zaharijević, Adriana, "The Community of the Dispossessed: Women's Peace Coalition" in Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations Figuring out the Enemy (2019):215-225, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351273169 . .