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The year 1989, when Serbia revoked Kosovo’s autonomy, was a break that changed also the course of women’s political engagements. Women had always to negotiate and strategise with different layers of power and against different forms of oppression—state and patriarchal oppression and cultural racism as well as class oppression.
1 maj 2023 · Radio Kosova E. Lire estimates that approximately 40 women perished during the war against Serbia. The stories bear testimony to a young nation’s struggle for liberation.
This study deals with sexual violence in the Kosovo conflict. Adopting a broad timeframe from 1998/99 to 2019 it analyses the discourse about sexual violence and considers the actors involved, focussing on practices of silencing and “un-silencing”.
2 gru 2019 · At our Polis-Teatime on 2 December we discussed the diverse roles, experiences and perceptions of women in the Kosovo War with our guests Drivalda Delia and Furtuna Sheremeti. Central topics were the lack of complexity in the discourse, commonly fostering the image of women as victims of sexual violence, and the reasons for this persisting ...
Ahmeti and other investigators who accompanied her found women's tights, combs, and panties strewn around the basement. The room had been decorated with pornographic pictures of women.
photo-reportage. Unlike the Gulf War, however, these pictures featured human casualties of war, including Kosovar refugee women holding small children and babies. Notably, media representations of Albanian Muslims, elsewhere categorized as non-Western people of color, are here (mis)represented as white victims to be rescued. This manipulation of
23 kwi 2023 · Thousands of women were raped in Kosovo in the conflict that erupted 25 years ago between Serbian and ethnic Albanian forces for control of the now independent country.
