Ženski aktivizam u Indiji: pregovaranje o sekularizmu i religiji

In post-independence India secularism was almost taken for granted as a defining feature of the women’s movement with its rejection of the public expression of religious and caste identities. However, already by the 1980s, the assumption that gender could be used as a unifying factor was challenged, revealing that women from different social (class/caste) and religious backgrounds understand and sometime use their identities in ways that are not driven necessarily by some ideology (such as feminism or human rights), but by more immediate concerns and even opportunism. This realization opened up a debate about new strategies to tackle women’s activism, especially in light of aggressive political activism of some women associated with right-wing parties in India, which has clearly shattered the perception, held by some, of women as inherently peace-loving, whose gender identity would override their caste and religious belonging.Posle sticanja nezavisnosti, sekularizam je u Indiji prihvaćen skoro kao nešto što se podrazumeva, a odbacivanje javnog ispoljavanja religijskog i kastinskog identiteta smatralo se glavnom odlikom ženskog pokreta. Međutim, već 1980-ih godina pretpostavka da se rodna pripadnost može uzeti kao ujedinjujući faktor ženskog pokreta dovedena je u pitanje pokazavši da žene iz različitih socijalnih (klasnih/kastinskih) i religijskih miljea razumeju, a ponekad i koriste, svoje identitete na načine koji se nužno ne rukovode nekom ideologijom (kao femi nizam ili ljudska prava), nego mnogo neposrednijim interesima, pa čak i oportunizmom. Ovaj uvid je pokrenuo raspravu o novim strategijama u okviru ženskog aktivizma, naročito u kontekstu agresivnog političkog delovanja nekih ženskih grupa pri desno orijentisanim političkim partijama. Njihovo delovanje je poljuljalo sliku koju su neki imali o ženama kao suštinski miroljubivim, kao i uverenje da rodni identitet može da prevaziđe kastinsku i religijsku pripadnost žena u Indiji

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What place for East and West? Discourses, reality and foreign and security policies of post-Yugoslav small states

This paper explores different and changing receptions and uses of ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the foreign policy discourses of Serbia and Croatia, as puzzling cases of state identity configuration. The author suggests and gives meaning to the conception of ‘small state reality’ and offers a perspective on the role of historical, contextual and situational elements of state identity in the understanding of foreign policy orientations and agency. The paper discusses the productive possibilities of such a reading in the light of the relational turn in small states’ literature and recent discussions about ‘non-Western’ international relations