Collective victimhood of individual survivors: reflecting the uses and impacts of two academic narratives two decades after the war-rapes in Bosnia-Herzegovina

: Močnik N.

Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

: 2019

: East European Politics

: EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS

: EAST EUR POLITICS

: 35

: 4

: 457

: 473

: 17

: 2159-9165

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2019.1676739

The author argues that engaging with the legacy of war rapes that happened two decades ago allow us to observe, reflect and analyse the impact of past research, and in doing so to revise methodologies and theoretical approaches in the future research projects in the field. To reflect on the use of the pas knowledge production in her own ethnographic work, she reflects on two most persuasive academic narratives in the context of war-inflicted rapes in Bosnia-Herzegovina: (1) the victim-survivor name argument and (2) the idea of collective victimhood.