Balkan Talks on Paper: Feminist antimilitarist initiatives offers a first mapping of feminist initiatives and organizations in the countries of the former Yugoslavia whose political practice is rooted in antifascist struggle and feminist antimilitarism. Rather than providing a comprehensive overview, the booklet foregrounds situated feminist knowledge and self-articulated practices, highlighting how contemporary groups connect local struggles with transnational networks of solidarity.
Drawing on the historical legacy of the Antifascist Front of Women (AFŽ) and the feminist antiwar movements of the 1990s, the texts present contemporary initiatives such as the feminist collective CRVENA in Sarajevo, Women in Black (Žene u crnom) in Belgrade, the curatorial collective BLOK in Zagreb, the Zagreb Anti-Fascist Women’s Network (MAZ), and the work of activist and researcher Emina Bužinkić. Through archives, cultural production, political education, public protest, and cross-border cooperation, these actors challenge militarism, nationalism, patriarchy, and capitalism as intertwined structures of violence.
Edited by the Berlin-based association Ambasada, the publication combines essays and organizational self-presentations to show antifascism as a living feminist practice rather than a closed historical chapter. It invites readers in and beyond the region to engage with feminist antimilitarist politics as a crucial contribution to broader debates on memory, justice, and resistance in contemporary Europe.
The publication is availabe for download on the international website of Rosa Luxembrug Stiftung via link below:
https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/54521/balkan-talks-on-paper-feminist-antimilitarist-initiatives
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