Rada Iveković

Background

Rada Iveković was born in 1945 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia).

Education

Rada Iveković attended High School in Belgrade and Zagreb. Later she entered the University of Zagreb where she received degrees in Indian Studies and English Language and Literature both in 1969. Iveković also studied at the University of Delhi where she received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Buddhist Philosophy in 1972. In 1993 she completed her habilitation in Philosophical Anthropology of Difference at the University of Paris-8.

Career

Rada Iveković started her career as a Lecturer, then professor in the Chair History of Asian Philosophies and Comparative Philosophy at the University of Zagreb in 1974. She held this post until 1991. In 1993, she took up a post of a professor at the University Paris-8. At that time she studied comparative philosophy, feminist theory, feminist philosophy, and political philosophy.

In 1997 Rada Iveković published a study on gender/sex in philosophy. After 12 years at the University of Paris-8, Iveković started to work as a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Jean Monnet University in 2003. In 2004 she became Program Director, Collège international de philosophie. In 2005, she published her book Captive Gender: Ethnic Stereotypes and Cultural Boundaries. She is also a co-author of such books as Partitions: Reshaping States and Minds and Biopolitics, ethics and subjectivation.

Achievements

• Rada Iveković is a French educator, writer, and philosopher who is famous for her books on Indian philosophies, political philosophy, gender and feminism. After having published some 20 books in Serbocroatian, she now publishes mainly in French and English. Her most famous book on gender and in English is Captive Gender. Her last book (2022) in English is Migration, New Nationalisms and Populism. An epistemological perspective on the closure of rich countries. She has books and papers in several languages. To see her titles in different languages, see Academia.edu,
  
  https://independent.academia.edu/radaivekovi%C4%87,
  
  TERRA-HN, www.reseau-terra.eu/auteur22.html
  
  and the blog Partage de la raison, http://radaivekovicunblogfr.unblog.fr/2009/10/30/autopsie-des-balkans-essai-de-psychopolitique-livre/
  
  
  
  

Works

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• book

  • Partitions: Reshaping States and Minds

    (The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the collapse of...)

    2004
  • Biopolitics, ethics and subjectivation

    (This collective book proposes to re-examine and explore t...)

    2011
  • Captive Gender: Ethnic Stereotypes and Cultural Boundaries

    (Essays on women and nationalism. focus on Bosnia, general...)

    2005

• various

  • several titles

Politics

Rada Iveković takes an anti-patriarchal, antiracist and anti-nationalist position. She holds the view that the inequality of the sexes (inégalité des sexes) and other alterities, inequalities, exclusions comes from a fatal partitioning of reason.

Views

In 2017, Iveković has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Membership

Rada Iveković is a member of the editorial team of the TERRA scientific network.

Interests

• Political philosophy, literary theory and literary criticism, history, anthropology, Indian social sciences...

Connections

Rada Iveković married Goran Fejić.

husband:

Goran Fejić

political analyst

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/midnight-in-belgrade-dusk-in-europe/

and other writings