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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794704803321

Autore

Athanasiou Athena

Titolo

Agonistic Mourning : Political Dissidence and the Women in Black / / Athena Athanasiou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, [Scotland] : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4744-2017-6

1-4744-3490-8

1-4744-2016-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Incitements

Disciplina

303.484

Soggetti

Mourning customs - Political aspects - Serbia - Belgrade - History - 20th century

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 - Women

Dissenters

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Mourning Otherwise -- 2 Gendered Intimacies of the Nationalist Archive -- 3 Spectral Spaces of Counter-Memory -- 4 Political Languages of Responsiveness and the Disquiet of Silence -- Epilogue: Agonistic Re-Membering of the Political -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Through an ethnographic account of the urban feminist and antinationalist movement Women in Black of Belgrade during the Yugoslav wars, Athanasiou shows that we might understand their dissident politics of mourning as a means to refigure political life beyond sovereign accounts of subjectivity and agency.