Dr. Ana Miškovska Kajevska, independent researcher, also affiliated to the University of Amsterdam
Ana Miškovska Kajevska defended her award-winning doctoral thesis at the University of Amsterdam, and turned it into the wonderful book ‘Feminist Activism at War: Belgrade and Zagreb Feminists in the 1990s’ (Routledge, 2017). Unpacking common myths about feminist clashes in and around the (post-)Yugoslav wars, she has shown that she really masters the skills of critical thinking and sound scholarly sociohistorical analysis.
Since then, she has mainly been back to her native North Macedonia, sharing the fate of so many of her generation (fellow non-EU/EEA nationals, in particular), hopping around collecting precious precarious smaller job positions. Still, she managed to keep up the scholarly work, too, publishing on opposition to feminist politics, abortion politics, divisions in times of Covid, and LGBT activism.
She was a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna in 2018, a visiting researcher at the Open Society Archives in Budapest in 2019, and she remains a supporter of various struggles for social justice. Her guest lectures and talks target and make bridges between the scholarly, professional and activist communities and knowledge.
Highlights:
Miškovska Kajevska, A. (2020). ‘Kako se delevme vo vreme na KOVID-19?’ [How We Divided Ourselves in the Time of COVID-19?]. In: Bliznakovski, J. & Todorov, P. (eds.) Nie nasproti drugite: Simbolički podelbi vo Severna Makedonija [We versus the Others: Symbolic Divisions in North Macedonia]. Skopje: Centar za istražuvanje na nacionalizmot i kulturata. [https://tinyurl.com/35p3xev8]
Miškovska Kajevska, A. (2018). ‘Suspending Democracy, Harming Gender Equality: The 2013 Law on Pregnancy Termination in Macedonia’. In: Verloo, M. (ed.) Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe. New York & London: Routledge.
Miškovska Kajevska, A. (2018). ‘A Foe of Democracy, Gender and Sexual Equality in Macedonia: The Disturbing Role of the Party VMRO-DPMNE’. In: Politics and Governance, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 55–66.
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1415/1415
Miškovska Kajevska, A. (2017). Feminist Activism at War: Belgrade and Zagreb Feminists in the 1990s. London & New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Feminist-Activism-and-Conflict-during-the-post-Yugoslav-Wars/Kajevska/p/book/9781138697683
Miškovska Kajevska, A. (2016). ‘Growing Oppression, Growing Resistance: LGBT Activism and Europeanisation in Macedonia’. In: Bilić, B. (ed.) LGBT Activism and Europeanisation in the Post-Yugoslav Space: On the Rainbow Way to Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
