Gender and Citizenship

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Revisiting Dayton: Unfinished (Feminist) International Relations (Maria-Adriana Deiana)....Pages 1-44 Trajectories of Women’s Citizenship from Socialism to the Bosnian War (Maria-Adriana Deiana)....Pages 45-67 The Politics of Not/Belonging: Making Sense of Post-Dayton Exclusions (Maria-Adriana Deiana)....Pages 69-104 Women’s Personal Narratives and the Multi-layered Legacies of War (Maria-Adriana Deiana)....Pages 105-136 Collective Visions for Citizenship and Challenges of Transversal Politics as Practice (Maria-Adriana Deiana)....Pages 137-166 Is Another Citizenship Possible? Hopeful Political Practices in the Post-Dayton Impasse (Maria-Adriana Deiana)....Pages 167-197 Conclusions (Maria-Adriana Deiana)....Pages 199-211 Erratum to: Gender and Citizenship (Maria-Adriana Deiana)....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter ....Pages 213-220