ABSTRACT
In this introduction, we aim to identify the departing point of this volume: how state institutions and (international) statebuilding processes are gendered and masculinised, and how women and non-binary gender identities have continuously encountered such practices. Focusing on different encounters by women and feminists in Kosovo, we set the path for the volume identifying the importance that (international) statebuilding has gained in the last decades and what such centrality has meant in the everyday living of post-conflict contexts through gender and feminist lenses, engaging with feminist learnings and contributions that have also constituted encounters to the statebuilding literature.
