A Post-Yugoslav Anthropologist in Exile
Auto-ethnographic Reflections on Gender and Identity from a Feminist Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6195609 |
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| Authors | Alesandra Tatić (0000-0001-9709-2746, Centre Norbert Elias, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 170-171 |
| Issue | 170-171 |
| Pages | 69-84 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal des anthropologues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1156-0428 • E-ISSN: 2114-2203 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/jda.12270 |
| OpenAlex | W4367466264 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Feminism · Field (mathematics · Identity (music · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · China's Global Influence and Migration · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health
| Highly cited | No |
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