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Author Majstorović, Danijela

Title Discourse and affect in postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina : peripheral selves / Danijela Majstorović
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Postdisciplinary studies in discourse
Postdisciplinary studies in discourse.
Contents 1 Introduction -- 2 Peripherality, Resistance, Solidarity -- 3 Decolonizing a Future in a European Periphery Between Socialist Interruptions and the Postcolonial Present -- 4 From Discourse to Body and Back via Critical Materialism: Bringing Discourse and Affect Research Together -- 5 A Short History of a Mobilizable Postsocialist Body Politic: The Banja Luka Social Center -- 6 Justice for David, Justice for All of Us: A Story of Two Bodies -- 7 Our Migrating Laboring Bodies: When Periphery Moves to Center -- 8 Being in This Together: Of Quarantined, Global Southern and Global Eastern Bodies in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Summary "Speaking from and about the periphery that Bosnia-Herzegovina has become, Danijela Majstorovic theorises the affective entanglements of Bosnians responses to peripheralization with a decolonial commitment and an intimate understanding of what it has meant in her own material and social worlds between protests for civic justice and the third wave of postsocialist migration from Bosnia-Herzegovina emplacing and displacing peripheral selves'."--Catherine Baker, University of Hull, UK This book examines the making and breaking of peripheral selves in and from postsocialist Bosnia in an empirically rich self-reflexive account of politico-economic and ideological developments. Through world systems and postcolonial theory, historical and new materialist optics, discursive and affective analytical registers, and various qualitative methodological choices, the author analyzes peripheral subjectivity in connection to global proletarianization, as well as past and present resistance via social and personal movement(s). She refers to past Yugoslav socialist and anticolonial struggles as well as more recent ones, including the social justice and feminist collective, engaging with workers and womens struggles in postwar Bosnia and the Justice for David movement. Finally, she analyzes the lives of new third-wave Bosnian migrants to Germany post-2015, placing them in juxtaposition with non-European migrants in Bosnian reception centers and exposing labor and race, border struggles and market as new variables for studying selves in this particular context. Writing about situated knowledge and politics of location, the author stresses the importance of strong affective ties within researcher-researched assemblages urging for deeper coalitions and solidarity among various peripheral, power-differentiated communities. This book will be of interest to readers with backgrounds in linguistics, sociology, post-Yugoslav history, cultural studies and anthropology. Danijela Majstorovic is Professor of English Linguistics and Cultural Studies in the English Department at the University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her research interests involve qualitative social research, critical discourse analysis, critical theory, feminism and postcolonial theory. She has published extensively on postwar Bosnias postsocialist transformation, the role of the international community and local ethno-nationalist elites, youth ethnicity, womens struggles, social movements and migrations
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Subject Post-communism -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Social movements -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Affect (Psychology) -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Affect (Psychology)
Politics and government
Post-communism
Social movements
SUBJECT Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Politics and government -- 1992- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004466
Subject Bosnia and Herzegovina
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030802455
3030802450