Research interests

media representations of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in the context of war and violence

Biography

Dubravka Žarkov earned her BA in Sociology at the University of Belgrade, and her MA  (at International Institute of Social Studies – ISS, The Hague) and PhD (at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) both in the Netherlands. There she taught women’s studies, war and media studies, and research methodology courses for almost twenty years, and retired as Associate Professor in December 2018. Her main research interests are media representations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in the context of war and violence. Since 2014 Dubravka has been co-editor of European Journal of Women’s Studies, and in  2017 together with Kathy Davis she edited a virtual special issue Intersectionality – A Retrospective.  Though retired, Dubravka remains an associate of the Centre for the Study of Social Difference (Columbia University, New York, USA); Centro de Estudos Sociais,  Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal;​ and the Social Cultural Research / Gender & Diversity section (​Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands).

Selected publications

(2015) Conflict, Peace, Security and Development. Theories and Methodologies (with Helen Hintjens, Routledge)

(2014) Narratives of Justice in and out of the Courtroom. Former Yugoslavia and Beyond (with Marlies Glasius, Springer)

(2008) Gender, Conflict, Development (New Delhi: Zubaan)

(2007) The Body of War. Media, Ethnicity and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia (Durham and London: Duke University Press)

(2005) Working Through the War. Trajectories of Non-Governmental and Governmental Organizations Engaged in Psycho-social Assistance to Victims of War and Family Violence in the ex-Yugoslav States (Utrecht: Pharos)

(2002) The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping (with Cynthia Cockburn, London: Lawrence and Wishart)