CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Causevic, Azra |
|---|---|
| Title | Making It Queer in Post-Socialist BiH |
| Summary | The focus of this thesis are ethnocratic practices within BH context that are enforcing homophobia as a nationalist embedded frameworks to preserve the Bosniak tradition and nation building, especially in relation to stereotypical gender roles of both men and women from the war period of 1990’s which cause further marginalization of BH population as well as LGBTQI community from the European Union. In the examples of Bosniak nation building where nation itself is marked with bodies of šehidi and bodies of women as reproducers of nation, victimization has become a way of Bosniak self-definition hailing heteronormative masculinities to sustain the myth of nation building. BH Bosniak politicians legitimize their struggle for conservative and selective traditions of Bosnian Muslims and in this way recontextualize Islam and war legacy as stumbling blocks for shifting to new alternative politics of equality that might lead BiH to the European Union. Through the homophobic rhetorics of BH ethnocrats and Islamic Community leaders, the example of 2008 Sarajevo Queer Festival violence and closing for the public shows normative views of exclusion and alteration of public spaces. Platforms and actions of queer politics in relation to Sarajevo Queer Festival in BiH are deliberately misused by Bosniak ethnocrats and marked as deviant, though they offer a systematic questioning of BH post-Dayton condition through cultural production. |
| Supervisor | Hadley, Z. Renkin |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/causevic_azra.pdf |
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