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1. Introduction: In Lesbian Worlds -- 2. Coming Out: Announcing Lesbinality in Yugoslavia -- 3.Times of Splits: Surviving the 1990s -- 4. Away from the Capitals: Decentralising Lesbian Activist Engagement -- 5. Speaking Separately: 2015 Belgrade Lesbian March and Its Antecedents -- 6. In Power?: Ana Brnabić, Abjection, and Class Privilege -- 7. Conclusion: Against the Burdens of the Unspoken .

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1: Europeanisation, LGBT Activism, and Non-Heteronormativity in the Post-­Yugoslav Space: An Introduction -- "Europeanising" Post-Yugoslav Space Through LGBT Activisms -- Queeroslav (Be)longing, Care, and Hope -- References -- 2: Discontents of Professionalisation: Sexual Politics and Activism in Croatia in the Context of EU Accession -- Professionalisation and NGOs -- The Division of Labour in the LGBT NGO "Scene" -- Collaboration Shapes Strategies -- Funding that Shapes Activists' Initiatives

Europe and the European Union are unavoidable, if ambiguous, political references in the post-Yugoslav space. This volume interrogates the forms and implications of the increasingly potent symbolic nexus that has developed between non-heterosexual sexualities, LGBT activism(s) and Europeanisation(s) in all of the Yugoslav successor states. Contributors to this book show how the long EU accession process disseminates discursive tools employed in LGBT activist struggles for human rights and equality. This creates a linkage between "Europeanness" and "gay emancipation" which elevates certain forms of gay activist engagement and perhaps also non-heterosexuality, more generally, to a measure of democracy, progress and modernity. At the same time, it relegates practices of intolerance to the LGBT community to the status of non-European primitivist Other who is inevitably positioned in the patriarchal past that should be left behind.>

Der Band folgt dem (post-)jugoslawischen Anti-Kriegs-Protestzyklus, der sich im Laufe der 1990er Jahre entfaltete. Der Autor argumentiert, dass der jugoslawische Anti-Kriegs-Aktivismus nicht nachvollzogen werden kann, ohne die inter- und intra-republikanischen Kooperationen vor dem Hintergrund der sozialistischen Erfahrungen zu würdigen

U ovom tekstu se pozivam na pojam zazora kako bih ispitao načine na koje Ana Brnabić, prva otvoreno lezbejska premijerka u Srbiji i Istočnoj Evropi, uzdrmava emocionalno nabijene slojeve predrasuda na raznim stranama političkog spektra. Diskusije koje prate kako njen privatni tako i javni život obeležene su figurama zazora koje ukazuju na duboke pukotine srbijanskog političkog polja. Učesnici u javnoj raspravi, bilo da su iz državnog ili nedržavnog sektora, upleteni su u petlju zazora koja, obuhvatajući sfere roda, seksualnosti, "rase" i telesnosti, reflektuje jake patrijarhalne ponornice kao strukturne karakteristike srbijanskog političkog života. ; This paper employs the notion of abjection to explore how debates surrounding Ana Brnabić, the first openly lesbian prime minister in Serbia and Eastern Europe, stir affectively lined layers of prejudice across the political spectrum. Drawing upon a range of empirical sources, I argue that the actors engaging in debates about Brnabić's both private and public life are entangled in a loop of abjection which, while comprising gender, sexuality, 'race', and the body, reflects strong patriarchal undercurrents as structural features of Serbian politics. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

(Post-)Yugoslav anti-war contention has remained an under-theorised topic almost twenty years after the end of the wars of Yugoslav succession. Rather than focusing on the "ontogenesis" of individual pacifist enterprises, this paper examines the reasons for which (post-)Yugoslav anti-war activisms have been marginalised in recent East European sociological scholarship. I argue that a thorough appreciation of these phenomena requires a Yugoslav/regional approach which has not been favoured by post-Yugoslav social science scholars. This article also offers a critical reading of the existing attempts to theorise (post-) Yugoslav anti-war activisms. It criticises their failure to draw upon the rich conceptual apparatus of social movement theories developed within Western political sociology over the last couple of decades. In spite of the fact that the concept of "social movement" may be contested in the context of post-Yugoslav anti-war engagement on the basis of its quantitative marginality, this should not deter (post-)Yugoslav social scientists from applying and refining Anglo-Saxon social movement theories in a culturally sensitive manner. Specific dynamics of anti-war activism occurring within an armed conflict has not been sufficiently studied. This is an important knowledge lacuna where regional sociologists could offer a substantive contribution.

This paper follows the almost contemporaneous emergence of the two primary antiwar initiatives in Belgrade and Zagreb to explore how they acted as hotbeds from which permanent human rights organizations appeared in the newly created nation-states. Drawing mostly upon in-depth interviews with antiwar activists from Serbia and Croatia, I argue that the dominant patterns of protest expansion were different in the two countries. While cooperation and tensions existed within both antiwar groups, the Antiwar Campaign of Croatia acted as a broker, leading toward the multiplication of civic initiatives; on the other hand, the Belgrade Center for Antiwar Action was characterized by ideological, professional, and personal divisions, which caused a rapid fragmentation of antiwar undertakings. This paper outlines the main reasons for such expansion patterns (scale-shift processes) and discusses them in the light of recent theoretical advances in political contention studies.

The Belgrade-based activist groupWomen in Blackhas been for twenty years now articulating a feminist anti-war stance in an inimical socio-political climate. The operation of this anti-patriarchal and anti-militarist organization, which has resisted numerous instances of repression, has not been until now systematically approached from a social movement perspective. This paper draws upon a range of empirical methods, comprising life-story interviews, documentary analysis and participant observation, to address the question as to how it was possible for this small circle of activists to remain on the Serbian/post-Yugoslav civic scene for the last two decades. My central argument is that a consistent collective identity, which informs the group's resource mobilization and strategic options, holds the key to the surprising survival of this activist organization. I apply recent theoretical advances on collective identity to the case of the BelgradeWomen in Blackwith the view of promoting a potentially fruitful cross-fertilization between non-Western activism and the Western conceptual apparatus for studying civic engagement.

This book intertwines academic and activist voices to engage with more than three decades of lesbian activism in the Yugoslav space. The empirically rich contributions uncover a range of lesbian initiatives and the fundamental, but rarely acknowledged, role that lesbian alliances have played in articulating a feminist response to the upsurge of nationalism, widespread violence against women, and high levels of lesbophobia and homophobia in all of the post-Yugoslav states. By offering a distinctly intergenerational and transnational perspective, this collection does not only shed new light on a severely marginalised group of people, but constitutes a pioneering effort in accounting for the intricacies - solidarities, joys, and tensions - of lesbian activist organising in a post-conflict and post-socialist environment. With a plethora of authorial standpoints and innovative methodological approaches, the volume challenges the systematic absence of (post- )Yugoslav lesbian activist enterprises from recent social science scholarship. Lesbian Activism in the (Post- )Yugoslav Space will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, history, politics, anthropology, and sociology.--

This volume combines empirically oriented and theoretically grounded reflections upon various forms of LGBT activist engagement to examine how the notion of intersectionality enters the political context of contemporary Serbia and Croatia. By uncovering experiences of multiple oppression and voicing fear and frustration that accompany exclusionary practices, the contributions to this book seek to reinvigorate the critical potential of intersectionality, in order to generate the basis for wider political alliances and solidarities in the post-Yugoslav space. The authors, both activists and academics, challenge the systematic absence of discussions of (post- )Yugoslav LGBT activist initiatives in recent social science scholarship, and show how emancipatory politics of resistance can reshape what is possible to imagine as identity and community in post-war and post-socialist societies. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of history and politics of Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav states, as well as to those working in the fields of political sociology, European studies, social movements, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, and queer theory and activism.