Description
We are a group of six female scholars - Dženeta Karabegović, Slađana Lazić, Vjosa Musliu, Julija Sardelić, Elena B. Stavrevska, Jelena Obradović Wochnik - of and from the post-Yugoslav space, currently working in Global North academia.We connected, physically and/or virtually, over a number of years, in different places, from conference hotels and universities, to research visits and social media. The six of us came together as an exercise in frustration sharing, over knowledge production we have all experienced and the love for knowledge, education, and the region we have called ‘home’, first in the form of anecdotes shared in discussions, then in the form of an analysis of the patterns we noticed emerging across our stories. As young female scholars coming from the Balkans, we have often been subjected to pedagogical politics on what and how we should research our own region, and how we should navigate our supposed innate biases so that we can make our academic work ‘legitimate’ and ‘objective’. We have encountered a similar pattern in the experiences of many academics from the Global South and the Global East.
| Period | 2019 → 2021 |
|---|---|
| Held at | Yugoslawomen+ Collective |
| Degree of Recognition | International |