Women's stories of the Yugoslav breakup: Wartime experiences of deviance
Journal: White Rose eTheses Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)
Year: 2016

This project investigates how women construct accounts of the Yugoslav breakup as gendered performances, contributing to Balkan criminology and narrative criminology. Their accounts relate to the wartime illicit settings of the black market and smuggling. Based upon fieldwork in Cyprus and Serbia, during which two narrative interviews were conducted, this study explores how women narrate their stories of illegality with the benefit of distance, particularly how they discursively employ gender as