A Post-Yugoslav Anthropologist in Exile
This article explores to what extent my profession as a social anthropologist, focused on female experiences of exile, as a result of my own personal post-Yugoslav origin. This has helped me carve out new meanings to my own identity as a woman from the “East” living and working in the “West”. I disc...
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Journal des anthropologues
2023
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| Sažetak: | This article explores to what extent my profession as a social anthropologist, focused on female experiences of exile, as a result of my own personal post-Yugoslav origin. This has helped me carve out new meanings to my own identity as a woman from the “East” living and working in the “West”. I discuss the problems of nationalism, feminism, and sexism as I absorbed them growing up in Belgrade and in the 1990’s and 2000’s, and how these conceptions were deeply challenged in unexpected ways when I migrated to France to pursuit an academic career. In sum, I revise how some widely common preconceptions of my generation idealizing Western societies encountered the “real” West, an eye-opening (and sometimes painful) experience, that had a foundational effect in the decision-making process that finally took me to embrace feminist anthropology as my field of study, and activist focus. |
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