Outputs (17)

Empowering women? An assessment of international gender policies in Bosnia (2005)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2005). Empowering women? An assessment of international gender policies in Bosnia. International Peacekeeping, 12(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/13533310500074507

International policy-making promises to empower women in Bosnia through encouraging their participation in the political process, giving them voice in civil society and through providing enhanced opportunities for economic independence. This paper ch... Read More about Empowering women? An assessment of international gender policies in Bosnia.

Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance (2005)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2005). Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance. Conflict, Security and Development, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14678800500170076

This article discusses the emergence of global therapeutic governance or the influence of social psychology on international development policy. Therapeutic governance links psychosocial well-being and security, and seeks to foster personalities able... Read More about Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance.

Multiculturalism and its discontents in SFR Yugoslavia and Bosnia: a critique of the multiculturalist rights model (2005)
Book Chapter
Pupavac, V. (2005). Multiculturalism and its discontents in SFR Yugoslavia and Bosnia: a critique of the multiculturalist rights model. In The UN, human rights and post-conflict situations. Manchester University Press

In this chapter I seek to contribute to debates over multiculturalism and highlight problems with ethnic rights strategies. I hope to facilitate understanding of the failures to overcome ethnic divisions in Bosnia, as well as to suggest how critiques... Read More about Multiculturalism and its discontents in SFR Yugoslavia and Bosnia: a critique of the multiculturalist rights model.

Psychosocial interventions and the demoralisation of humanitarianism (2004)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2004). Psychosocial interventions and the demoralisation of humanitarianism. Journal of Biosocial Science, 36(4), 491-504. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932004006613

Summary: This paper critically analyses from a political sociology standpoint the international conceptualization of war-affected populations as traumatized and in need of therapeutic interventions. It argues for the importance of looking beyond the... Read More about Psychosocial interventions and the demoralisation of humanitarianism.

War on the couch: the emotionology of the new international security paradigm (2004)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2004). War on the couch: the emotionology of the new international security paradigm. European Journal of Social Theory, 7(2), 149-170. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431004041749

The emotional state of war-affected populations has become a central concern for international policy-makers over the last decade. Growing interest in war trauma is influenced by contemporary Anglo-American emotionology, or emotional norms, which ten... Read More about War on the couch: the emotionology of the new international security paradigm.

Politics and language rights: a case study of language politics in Croatia (2003)
Book Chapter
Pupavac, V. (2003). Politics and language rights: a case study of language politics in Croatia. In G. Hogan-Brun, & S. Wolff (Eds.), Minority languages in Europe: frameworks, status, prospects. Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter discusses language and national aspirations through a case study of language politics in Croatia. Not only is language crucially influenced by national politics, but language politics has played a significant role in national politics in... Read More about Politics and language rights: a case study of language politics in Croatia.

Pathologizing populations and colonizing minds: internatioinal psychosocial programmes in Kosovo (2002)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2002). Pathologizing populations and colonizing minds: internatioinal psychosocial programmes in Kosovo. Alternatives, 27,

Through a case study of international responses in Kosovo, this article critically analyses how the international therapeutic model constructs war-affected populations as traumatised and subject to psychosocial dysfunctionalism. The international the... Read More about Pathologizing populations and colonizing minds: internatioinal psychosocial programmes in Kosovo.