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Based on interviews in Bosnia and Herzegovina with survivors of the war and war rape, as well as those working with survivors, this book draws on the narratives of those who experienced the conflict, employing feminist ethnography and auto-ethnography to challenge monolithic accounts of the war based on ethnic identity and intolerance.
List of contents
Introduction: Pathways to Bosnia
Part I
1. Why Stories Matter
2. Ecologies of Peace
3. Bosnia Beyond Balkanism
4. Sarajevo the Beautiful
5. Growing up Under Siege
Part II
1. Unforgetting the Children Born Because of War
2. What Does it Mean to be a Child Born Because of War?
Part III
1. The Space of Dialogue: Women who Lived Through Violence
2. The Vulnerable and the Brave, in Their Own Words
3. Esma D., a Bosnian Woman Fighter
The Logic of Home: Transnational Fieldnotes on Peace
About the author
Tatjana Takševa is Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary's University, Canada. Born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2003), and is the author of numerous essays on feminist theory, nation building and the maternal, and co-editor of
Mothering Under Fire: Mothers and Mothering in Conflict Zones (2015) and
Motherhood and Migration (forthcoming, 2026).
Summary
Based on interviews in Bosnia and Herzegovina with survivors of the war and war rape, as well as those working with survivors, this book draws on the narratives of those who experienced the conflict, employing feminist ethnography and auto-ethnography to challenge monolithic accounts of the war based on ethnic identity and intolerance.
