ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of keywords covered in the subsequent chapters of the book. The term gender politics is used in this study to describe the political profile held by an individual or organisation about gender or feminism. However, gender politics in Serbia do not merely refer to a set of ideas about feminism: political perspectives about gender and/or feminism intersect with the position taken in relation to post-conflict. The gender politics held by individuals and organisations shape the way that activists signify, articulate and represent security discourse within their policy agendas. The book is about how social and political contexts shape the discourse of gender security, and take the starting point to be the complexity of Serbia's conflict and post-conflict context to highlight how gender security discourse is made in a multiplicity of ways. Realising that personal-political imaginations about conflict and post-conflict are product and productive of gender security discourses means realising the temporal complexity of security itself.
