Competing masculinities: Probing political disputes as acts of violence against women from Southern Sudan and Darfur

Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa

doi:10.1007/s12142-006-1030-7

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“…We have already died.” (emphasis added) Atrocities reflect their origins. Darfur's Zaghawa, Fur, Masaleit, and other Black African tribes were farming communities with stark gender roles: men as dominant decision‐makers protecting women as reproductive, cultural bodies (Abusharaf ). Since the 1600s, the Fur Sultanate's hakura land‐use system privileged certain “Black African” farmers over others, especially nomadic “Arab” herders—sparking conflict over arable land (de Waal 2007b).…”

Section: Genocide: Intentional Social Destructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In camps, multitudes die from dehydration, starvation, disease, exposure, and attack‐related injuries, largely because Sudan obstructs humanitarian aid efforts (e.g., Reeves ; U.N. Security‐Council ). The result: “the very foundation of village societies has been blasted to bits…[and] whatever notions and significances people attached to their practices are being shattered” (Abusharaf :69).…”

Section: Genocide: Intentional Social Destructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…She suggests this logic was behind Serbian trucks returning visibly pregnant rape‐abductees, and the blame rape victims faced during WWII. “At the heart” of the issue, Seifert argues, “is the outcome for men, not the suffering of women” (1996:59; Abusharaf ). Thus, unlike

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about perpetrators' intentions , this hypothesis investigates rape's communication effects : meaning‐making by victimized men.…”

Section: Gendered Genocide: Hypotheses About Social Processes Of Elimmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gendered Genocide: The Socially Destructive Process of Genocidal Rape, Killing, and Displacement in Darfur

Kaiser¹,

Hagan²

2015

Law Soc Rev

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Accounts of mass atrocities habitually focus on one kind of violence and its archetypal victim, inviting uncritical, ungendered misconceptions: for example, rape only impacts women; genocide is only about dead, battle-aged men. We approach collective violence as multiple, intersecting forms of victimization, targeted and experienced through differential social identities, and translated throughout communities. Through mixed-method analyses of Darfuri refugees' testimonies, we show (a) gendered causes and collective effects of selective killing, sexual violence, and anti-livelihood crimes, (b) how they cause displacement, (c) that they can be genocidal and empirically distinct from nongenocidal forms, (d) how the process of genocidal social destruction can work, and (e) how it does work in Darfur. Darfuris are victimized through gender roles, yielding a gendered meaning-making process that communicates socially destructive messages through crimes that selectively target other genders. The collective result is displacement and destruction of Darfuris' ways of life: genocide.

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Section: Genocide: Intentional Social Destructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Genocide: Intentional Social Destructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

H_{1}

about perpetrators' intentions , this hypothesis investigates rape's communication effects : meaning‐making by victimized men.…”

Section: Gendered Genocide: Hypotheses About Social Processes Of Elimmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gendered Genocide: The Socially Destructive Process of Genocidal Rape, Killing, and Displacement in Darfur

Kaiser¹,

Hagan²

2015

Law Soc Rev

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“…Elsewhere, I formulated a thesis of competing masculinities that convert women's bodies as primary targets for men to settle the scores among one another under circumstances of extreme political violence (Abusharaf 2006a). The feminization of Darfur through narratives of victimization and suffering that paint the region as a violated female body became the dominant story in a region whose affliction became synonymous with the cruel and inhumane treatment of women.…”

Section: Darfur In the Femininementioning

confidence: 99%

Debating Darfur in the World

Abusharaf

2010

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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67This article compares the debates and demonstrations about Darfur that have taken place in the Sudan, the United States, and Qatar and illuminates how political violence is apprehended and cultural identities are constructed. The rallies that occurred among Sudanese inside and outside the Sudan following the 2009 indictment of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) are particularly revealing. Examining what has been represented worldwide as the first genocide of the twenty-first century brings to light the ideologies that are expressed in impassioned political positions. Ideology, which implicitly undergirds the mixed emotions with which the ICC warrant was received, has been fundamental to the Darfur story from the start of the crisis in 2003. Describing Darfur in three distinct sociopolitical arenas, one sees various scenarios that are akin to a play with multiple actors and scenes, each of which is contextually mediated and expertly produced. The disconnections, ruptures, and shifts in the flow of this narration point to the disparities in the situational, local, regional, and transnational forces at work.

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“…Located at the crossroads of Africa and the Middle East and comprised of numerous ethnic groups with distinctive cultures and faiths, Sudan is Africa's largest country. Since gaining independence from Britain in 1956, Sudan has experienced the most enduring civil conflict in world history (Abusharaf 2006). Vast ethnic and religious diversity, widespread competition over scarce resources and systematic political and economic marginalization have sustained these internal conflicts.…”

Section: Background On Research Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%