Between Resistance and Repatriarchalization. Women’s Activism in the Bay of Kotor in the 1990s

Dabižinović Ervina ()
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Dabižinović Ervina: Prve bokeške brigade 12, 85340 Herceg Novi, Montenegro

Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2021, vol. 69, issue 1, 45-67

Abstract: The author offers an account of women’s activism in the Bay of Kotor in the 1990s, thereby filling a gap in the academic literature on antiwar and peace activism in Montenegro during the Yugoslav wars. Although the Bay of Kotor saw regular antiwar and peace initiatives organized and led by women, these were unregistered grassroots activities. They went largely unnoticed by the media, which effectively erased them from the view of Montenegrin citizens and hid them from domestic and international historians and social scientists. The author compares the work of two non-governmental organizations, the ANIMA Centre for Women’s and Peace Education in Kotor, and RIZA–Bijela. She explores how the two organizations understood the place and role of women in the processes that took place in Montenegro in the 1990s. She assesses the similarities and differences of their respective approaches, and the effects of their work.

Keywords: women's activism; human rights; peace activism; antiwar activism; Bay of Kotor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2021-2002

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