SNAKLAB Regensburg Southeastern Europe Research Seminars
This lecture presents an ongoing postdoctoral research project on women’s everyday lives in the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a wartime statelet that existed during the 1991–1995 conflict in Croatia and remains marginal in both scholarship and public discourse. The lecture outlines the central questions guiding the project: how was everyday life organized under conditions of violence, economic hardship, and uncertainty, and in what ways did women—across Serb, Croat, and other minority communities—exercise political agency through practices of care, survival, and social negotiation?
The project seeks to move beyond dominant military and nationalist narratives by centering on multiethnic interactions and social relations between women in a highly militarized and ethnically stratified environment. The lecture situates the project within feminist scholarship on war and peace and conflict studies, and considers how it may broaden understandings of everyday life and gendered political agency in secessionist and wartime settings.