ABSTRACT

To highlight the complexity of gender security narratives in Serbia, this chapter proceeds in three parts. The first chapter argued that the specific discursive configuration of gender security is formed through subjective personal-political imaginations. By illuminating the significant ontological logics supporting different configurations of security. The second Chapter demonstrated how gender security is a performative discourse, constituted through reiterative and citational practice. The final Chapter profiled the range of gender politics within feminist and women's organisations in Serbia, demonstrating that perceptions about war, conflict and the direction of post-conflict reconstruction shaped the political profile adapted by feminist and women's organisations and activists in Serbia. The chapter has drawn together these points to highlight the ways that inscriptions of gender security have been through personal-political imaginations of conflict and post-conflict. Central to understanding these points and how they fit together is a realisation of how temporal complexity shapes the profile of gender security discourse.