Some Characteristics of Interethnic Contacts of Women in a Post-War Divided City – Kosovo Case

This paper is a result of perennial theoretical and methodological studies and empirical research of the impact of social changes on the daily life of women in a post-conflict social environment. Keeping in mind that this paper is part of a more extensive field research, it focuses on some character...

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Main Author: Milovanović, Ivana (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: George Fox University 2018
In: Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe
Year: 2018, Volume: 38, Issue: 5, Pages: 17-55
Further subjects:B Women
B interethnic contacts
B Kosovo
B interreligious contacts Mitrovica / Kosovska Mitrovica
B daily life
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Summary:This paper is a result of perennial theoretical and methodological studies and empirical research of the impact of social changes on the daily life of women in a post-conflict social environment. Keeping in mind that this paper is part of a more extensive field research, it focuses on some characteristics of interethnic contacts, which at the same time, are interreligious contacts between Orthodox and Muslim women (Serbian, Albanian and Bosnian). Characteristics of interethnic contacts of women in a daily life contextual framework are described and explained within the Kosovar post-war divided city Mitrovica/Kosovska Mitrovica, with special emphasis on the grassroots women’s association called the "Women Center." The first part of the field research was conducted in the summers of 2010 and 2011 and the second part in the summer of 2018, in order to compare the manifest forms of interethnic contacts of the women. The core component of the paper is the results and discussion segment, which, by stressing the voices of those interviewed, shows how post-conflict daily life has some positive moments of interethnic encounters, even with short-term effects.
ISSN:2693-2148
Contains:Enthalten in: Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe