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Navigating to Subsistence: The Gendered Struggles in the Postwar Everyday and Their Implications for Peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2020

Elena B. Stavrevska
Elena B. Stavrevska*
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
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In developing a feminist analysis of postwar political economic practices and institutions, my contribution builds on previous Critical Perspectives forums in following Cynthia Enloe's call (2015, 438) to make sense of people's gendered political lives while embracing their “messiness” and Rahel Kunz's (2017) argument for placing life stories at the center of analysis. It focuses on the everyday life of female petty traders involved in the coping economy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), including those working at the (in)famous Arizona market in Brčko. By taking postwar gendered everyday experiences seriously, my contribution highlights the need for a gender-just, holistic approach to designing postwar reparative justice measures, labor market interventions, and integration of coping economic practices.

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Online Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2020 , e15
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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