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Violence, War, and Gender: Collective Memory and Politics of Remembrance in Kosovo

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This chapter examines the politics memory and remembrance by focusing on the perceptions of citizens regarding the framework of Europeanisation and dealing with the troubled past. Although Kosovo signed the Stabilisation and Accession Agreement (SAA) with the EU, the country struggles to deal with its past in the framework of EU integration. This chapter examines the extent to which Europeanisation acts as a tool for dealing with the troubled past, or is just a superficial framework imposed from top-down policies of the EU. From six focus groups with 51 participants, both men and women and representing the main ethnic communities in Kosovo, we examine three main frameworks in the narratives about war: the framework of conflict, memory, and gender, which looks at how the conflict is represented in gendered debates about the war; memories and Europeanisation, which questions the role of the EU and Europeanisation in Kosovo’s politics of memory; and the framework of living in a risk society, which examines how collective memory informs current debates on the role of gender in a post-conflict society.