Zajednica rasposedovanih: Ženska mirovna koalicija
The Community of the Dispossessed: Women’s Peace Coalition

Author(s): Adriana Zaharijević
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology of Politics, Identity of Collectives, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: KPZ Beton
Keywords: community; dispossesion; Women’s Peace Coalition; Kosovo Women’s Network; Women in Black;
Summary/Abstract: The paper delves into the possibility of constituting and preserving the alternative forms of communities, here exemplified by the Women’s Peace Coalition formed by Kosova Women’s Network and Women in Black network (Serbia). The principal question which paper puts forward is whether communities that surpass identitarian belonging can exist, and what is their relation to ‘communities’ defined by territoriality, nation (or nation-state), as well as to artificial and symbolic supra-national communities. The main aim of the paper is to examine the political potential of a community which seeks to ground itself within the logic of peace and refusal of the logic of possession (under the slogan: People, not territories). The community of feminist activists is defined as the community of the dispossessed, and the concept of dispossession is taken from Judith Butler’s and Athena Athanasiou’s work and contextualised. The introduction of this concept enables a different approach to a context of ambivalent, divided, inoperative state, where the wounds of war are still festering.

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