Maja Korac
Biographic Data
| ID | 111249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maja Korac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maja |
| FAMILY NAME | Korac |
| SIGNATURE | KORAC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9605-4465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Life History Research and the Violence of War
This reflective piece explores the ‘I am the evidence’ side of the process of knowing. It offers the story of the Yugoslav wars of secession (1991–1999) and their human consequences from the point of view of someone who refuses to surrender ground to the socio-political conditions of life in which ethno-national and cultural differences have to be transgressed. The core of this article is based on the life history of Maja Korac, developed in conv…
Remaking Home
Rather than emphasising boundaries and territories by examining the 'integration' and 'acculturation' of the immigrant or the refugee, this book offers insights into the ideas and practices of individuals settling into new societies and cultures. It analyses their ideas of connecting and belonging; their accounts of the past, the present and the future; the interaction and networks of relations; practical strategies; and the different meanings of…
Feminists against Sexual Violence in War
This article reflects upon feminist activism and analyses of sexual victimisation of women in war during the 1990s. It critically examines the reasons for the continuation of this type of violence against women, despite its recognition as a war crime; the recognition that marked one of the significant achievements of feminist activism during the last decade of the 20th century. The discussion points to the centrality of sexual violence in war for…
Is there a right time for gender-just peace? Feminist anti-war organising revisited
This paper addresses the question of totalising gender-power relations that have led to and shaped the wars of the 1990s in Yugoslavia and the emerging ethno-national states on the ‘periphery’ of Europe. I argue that the same type of gender-power relations continue to dominate the region, notably Serbia, and to perpetuate gender inequalities and gender-based violence (GBV) in its many everyday and structural forms, causing profound levels of huma…
Transnational pathways to integration
This article focuses on the process of integration of Chinese immigrants in Serbia. It is based on a pilot study conducted among Chinese traders in Belgrade, and examines the ways in which this highly mobile group of people is becoming incorporated into the Serbian society. The discussion points to a set of opportunities that Serbia as a transition society and a non-immigrant country offers to Chinese traders who have been settling in Belgrade an…
The Body of War
Gender, conflict and peace-building
The Lack of Integration Policy and Experiences of Settlement
This article examines the question of an absence of an integration policy, and specifically how this lack of state intervention is perceived by refugees themselves, and how it shapes their attitudes towards and strategies for integration. The emphasis in examining integration of refugees in this paper is on the importance of human agency in the process of structuring and re-structuring social relations across space and time. The article is based …
Integration and How We Facilitate it
The paper examines, in a comparative way, the situation of refugees settled in Italy and the Netherlands. It examines how refugees themselves perceive their social condition in the two contrasting 'models' of integration in Italy and the Netherlands and how they define integration success and develop strategies to achieve their goals. The narratives of refugees explored in this paper documents that integration, as it is perceived and desired by t…
Cross-ethnic networks, self-reception system, and functional integration of refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Rome
Ethnic-nationalism, wars and the patterns of social, political and sexual violence against women
The paper takes the recent conflict and wars in the region of post‐Yugoslav states and their impact on women as the point of departure. In this empirical context, I explore the patterns of violence against women, arguing that ethnic nationalism as a social phenomenon engenders a kind of “structural violence” with gender specific implications. Women are exposed to various forms of sexual, physical, and non‐physical violence in their relation to et…
Understanding ethnic-national identity and its meaning
Women's Groups in the Former Yugoslavia
The horrors the war in the Former Yugoslavia and the suffering more than four million refugees and internally displaced persons, mostly women and children, have already been well-documented (UNHCR 1993). The new states ex-Yugoslavia have the brunt the refugee burden. According to the UNHCR, as July 1993 the estimated total asylum seekers from the former Yugoslavia in European countries was 750,000, whereas 3,380,000 were displaced persons and ref…
Serbian Nationalism
How can one be objective in confronting abstract nationalism without facing the nationalism of one's own people? Moreover, in the case of former Yugoslavia, to be a Serb means to face the burden of the greatest responsibility for what has happened within the country. To be a Serb, to live in Serbia nowadays, and not to be nationally obsessed, means to be accused of betraying your nation, and labelled as a 'bad' Serb. Distinctions between 'bad' an…
Integration and How We Facilitate it
The paper examines, in a comparative way, the situation of refugees settled in Italy and the Netherlands. It examines how refugees themselves perceive their social condition in the two contrasting 'models' of integration in Italy and the Netherlands and how they define integration success and develop strategies to achieve their goals. The narratives of refugees explored in this paper documents that integration, as it is perceived and desired by t…
The Lack of Integration Policy and Experiences of Settlement
This article examines the question of an absence of an integration policy, and specifically how this lack of state intervention is perceived by refugees themselves, and how it shapes their attitudes towards and strategies for integration. The emphasis in examining integration of refugees in this paper is on the importance of human agency in the process of structuring and re-structuring social relations across space and time. The article is based …
Gender, conflict and peace-building
Understanding ethnic-national identity and its meaning
Ethnic-nationalism, wars and the patterns of social, political and sexual violence against women
The paper takes the recent conflict and wars in the region of post‐Yugoslav states and their impact on women as the point of departure. In this empirical context, I explore the patterns of violence against women, arguing that ethnic nationalism as a social phenomenon engenders a kind of “structural violence” with gender specific implications. Women are exposed to various forms of sexual, physical, and non‐physical violence in their relation to et…
Feminists against Sexual Violence in War
This article reflects upon feminist activism and analyses of sexual victimisation of women in war during the 1990s. It critically examines the reasons for the continuation of this type of violence against women, despite its recognition as a war crime; the recognition that marked one of the significant achievements of feminist activism during the last decade of the 20th century. The discussion points to the centrality of sexual violence in war for…
Is there a right time for gender-just peace? Feminist anti-war organising revisited
This paper addresses the question of totalising gender-power relations that have led to and shaped the wars of the 1990s in Yugoslavia and the emerging ethno-national states on the ‘periphery’ of Europe. I argue that the same type of gender-power relations continue to dominate the region, notably Serbia, and to perpetuate gender inequalities and gender-based violence (GBV) in its many everyday and structural forms, causing profound levels of huma…
Serbian Nationalism
How can one be objective in confronting abstract nationalism without facing the nationalism of one's own people? Moreover, in the case of former Yugoslavia, to be a Serb means to face the burden of the greatest responsibility for what has happened within the country. To be a Serb, to live in Serbia nowadays, and not to be nationally obsessed, means to be accused of betraying your nation, and labelled as a 'bad' Serb. Distinctions between 'bad' an…
Serbian Nationalism
How can one be objective in confronting abstract nationalism without facing the nationalism of one's own people? Moreover, in the case of former Yugoslavia, to be a Serb means to face the burden of the greatest responsibility for what has happened within the country. To be a Serb, to live in Serbia nowadays, and not to be nationally obsessed, means to be accused of betraying your nation, and labelled as a 'bad' Serb. Distinctions between 'bad' an…
Women's Groups in the Former Yugoslavia
The horrors the war in the Former Yugoslavia and the suffering more than four million refugees and internally displaced persons, mostly women and children, have already been well-documented (UNHCR 1993). The new states ex-Yugoslavia have the brunt the refugee burden. According to the UNHCR, as July 1993 the estimated total asylum seekers from the former Yugoslavia in European countries was 750,000, whereas 3,380,000 were displaced persons and ref…
Understanding ethnic-national identity and its meaning
Ethnic-nationalism, wars and the patterns of social, political and sexual violence against women
The paper takes the recent conflict and wars in the region of post‐Yugoslav states and their impact on women as the point of departure. In this empirical context, I explore the patterns of violence against women, arguing that ethnic nationalism as a social phenomenon engenders a kind of “structural violence” with gender specific implications. Women are exposed to various forms of sexual, physical, and non‐physical violence in their relation to et…
Cross-ethnic networks, self-reception system, and functional integration of refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Rome
The Lack of Integration Policy and Experiences of Settlement
This article examines the question of an absence of an integration policy, and specifically how this lack of state intervention is perceived by refugees themselves, and how it shapes their attitudes towards and strategies for integration. The emphasis in examining integration of refugees in this paper is on the importance of human agency in the process of structuring and re-structuring social relations across space and time. The article is based …
Integration and How We Facilitate it
The paper examines, in a comparative way, the situation of refugees settled in Italy and the Netherlands. It examines how refugees themselves perceive their social condition in the two contrasting 'models' of integration in Italy and the Netherlands and how they define integration success and develop strategies to achieve their goals. The narratives of refugees explored in this paper documents that integration, as it is perceived and desired by t…
Gender, conflict and peace-building
The Body of War
Transnational pathways to integration
This article focuses on the process of integration of Chinese immigrants in Serbia. It is based on a pilot study conducted among Chinese traders in Belgrade, and examines the ways in which this highly mobile group of people is becoming incorporated into the Serbian society. The discussion points to a set of opportunities that Serbia as a transition society and a non-immigrant country offers to Chinese traders who have been settling in Belgrade an…
Is there a right time for gender-just peace? Feminist anti-war organising revisited
This paper addresses the question of totalising gender-power relations that have led to and shaped the wars of the 1990s in Yugoslavia and the emerging ethno-national states on the ‘periphery’ of Europe. I argue that the same type of gender-power relations continue to dominate the region, notably Serbia, and to perpetuate gender inequalities and gender-based violence (GBV) in its many everyday and structural forms, causing profound levels of huma…
Feminists against Sexual Violence in War
This article reflects upon feminist activism and analyses of sexual victimisation of women in war during the 1990s. It critically examines the reasons for the continuation of this type of violence against women, despite its recognition as a war crime; the recognition that marked one of the significant achievements of feminist activism during the last decade of the 20th century. The discussion points to the centrality of sexual violence in war for…
Remaking Home
Rather than emphasising boundaries and territories by examining the 'integration' and 'acculturation' of the immigrant or the refugee, this book offers insights into the ideas and practices of individuals settling into new societies and cultures. It analyses their ideas of connecting and belonging; their accounts of the past, the present and the future; the interaction and networks of relations; practical strategies; and the different meanings of…
Life History Research and the Violence of War
This reflective piece explores the ‘I am the evidence’ side of the process of knowing. It offers the story of the Yugoslav wars of secession (1991–1999) and their human consequences from the point of view of someone who refuses to surrender ground to the socio-political conditions of life in which ethno-national and cultural differences have to be transgressed. The core of this article is based on the life history of Maja Korac, developed in conv…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Refugee (6 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (5 works)