Exploring Collective Memory-Work in Serbia: Construction of Gender and Ethnicity in Post-Conflict Context

Abstract

Introduction The text explains the application of the Collective Memory-Work (CMW) method in two projects in Serbia, considering the authors’ original fields – gender studies and psychology, as well as the objectives of their individual research projects. The paper also observes ways to make CMW useful for understanding socialization through gender and ethnic identities, both at the micro plane of the individual, and on the collective plane of the social group. Both approaches help improve understanding of the ways in which gender patterns and regimes, as well as nationalistic identity politics, multiply and perpetuate.