Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores to what extent my profession as a social anthropologist, focused on female experiences of exile, as a result of my own personal post-Yugoslav origin. This has helped me carve out new meanings to my own identity as a woman from the “East” living and working in the “West”. I discuss the problems of nationalism, feminism, and sexism as I absorbed them growing up in Belgrade and in the 1990’s and 2000’s, and how these conceptions were deeply challenged in unexpected ways when I migrated to France to pursuit an academic career. In sum, I revise how some widely common preconceptions of my generation idealizing Western societies encountered the “real” West, an eye-opening (and sometimes painful) experience, that had a foundational effect in the decision-making process that finally took me to embrace feminist anthropology as my field of study, and activist focus.
Source: Journal des anthropologues
DOI: 10.4000/jda.12270
Author: Alesandra Tatić
Language: French
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4367466264