ABSTRACT

The transforming regimes of femininity represent a critical core of operative post-genocide geographies, economies and industries of excessive affect in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as one continues to bear witness to the unhealing wounds incurred by the national governance of life and death there in the past few decades. The politics of hope based on the proposition of the equaliberty in the face of emergencies pretending to stitch up identitarian ruptures and lootings in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is about affirmative and universalizing imaginaries of political community and collectivity. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, mass graves become the sites of continuous production of human waste that in turn becomes a site of governing the living. The logic of victimization in Bosnia and Herzegovina has revealed its obverse face, turning out to be an offshoot or a mask of the primary logic of commodification. Governing female bodies and femininity are of essence in this twin logic of victimization and commodification.