Discourse and Affect in Postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina

Danijela Majstorović is Professor of English Linguistics and Cultural Studies in the English Department at the University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her research interests involve qualitative social research, critical discourse analysis, critical theory, feminism and postcolonial theory. She has published extensively on postwar Bosnia’s postsocialist transformation, the role of the international community and local ethno-nationalist elites, youth ethnicity, women’s struggles, social movements and migrations.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Peripherality, Resistance, Solidarity.- 3 Decolonizing a Future in a European Periphery Between Socialist Interruptions and the Postcolonial Present.- 4 From Discourse to Body and Back via Critical Materialism: Bringing Discourse and Affect Research Together.- 5 A Short History of a Mobilizable Postsocialist Body Politic: The Banja Luka Social Center.- 6 Justice for David, Justice for All of Us: A Story of Two Bodies.- 7 Our Migrating Laboring Bodies: When Periphery Moves to Center.- 8 Being in This Together: Of Quarantined, Global Southern and Global Eastern Bodies in Bosnia and Herzegovina