In October 2013, following almost two decades of exclusion from post-conflict constitutional debates in Bosnia and Herzegovina, gender advocates within civil society sought to publicly present a Women’s Platform for constitutional reform. This article takes a snapshot of that moment – the juncture when civil society activists launched the Platform – to understand the role of hope at a time when attempts to mobilise for change occur. I explore how individual and collective performances of hope contribute to the process and practice of mobilising within post-conflict political initiatives. Investigating this offers us another way of paying attention to how affective processes ‘move’ us, enabling the development of a nuanced perception about activism beyond simplistic narratives of success and failure in post-conflict contexts.

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希望改变：波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的性别和宪法改革快照

2013 年 10 月，在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那冲突后宪法辩论被排除在外近 20 年之后，民间社会中的性别倡导者试图公开提出一个妇女的宪法改革平台。本文捕捉了那个时刻——民间社会活动家启动平台的时刻——以了解在试图动员变革发生时希望的作用。我探讨了个人和集体的希望表现如何有助于冲突后政治倡议中的动员过程和实践。对此进行调查为我们提供了另一种关注情感过程如何“移动”我们的方式，使我们能够在冲突后环境中超越简单的成功和失败叙述，发展对激进主义的微妙感知。