Dr Gordana Subotic conducted her doctoral fieldwork research as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, in the period between March to September 2017. Gordana’s research is a politial ethnography with women politicians in the ‘politically sensitive environments’ of Serbia and Kosovo/a. It investigates the ways in which women politicians (Members of Parliament) imagined, constructed, and politicised national and gender identities as they actively engaged with politics in the context of the as yet understudied process of democratisation. Fieldwork data was collected through ethnographic research (participant observation, multi-sited ‘deep hanging out’, and interviews) with women politicians in Belgrade, Pristina, Prizren, and North Mitrovica.
The thesis was graded with minor revisions and external examiners suggested that it should be published as a monograph. At this moment, the thesis is under review by Routledge Publications. It was presented at the panel ‘Anthropology of Parliaments’ at the conference EASA2020 – European Association of Social Anthropologists ’New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe’ in July 2020. One part of the research is also under second peer review process and should be published as an article of the Special Issue of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism SEN Journal.