Sexual violence issues in eastern DRC: processes of global and local co-constitution

Jean-Bouchard, Évelyne

doi:10.1080/00083968.2017.1302807

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“…To keep the international community interested, there is a tendency to play the numbers game and to fixate on the brutality of SGBV cases. While this could be construed as a case of complicity that reinforces women’s victimhood, Jean-Bouchard (2013) with reference to eastern DRC contends that we should allow room for other interpretations. Such gendered actions could very well be a form of agentic expression when—in particular cultural contexts—women’s organisations adapt SGBV discourses to meet particular socio-material needs, for example, land and marriage.…”

Section: Gendering the Local Through The Everydaymentioning

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It Matters How You ‘Do’ Gender in Peacebuilding: African Approaches and Challenges

Hudson

2021

Insight on Africa

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The article draws attention to the consequences of simplistically equating gender, sex and women when doing peacebuilding. Drawing on the ambivalent nature of security architecture interventions from the African continent, I make a case for keeping a variety of conceptual approaches to gender mainstreaming in mind in order to avoid a narrow fixation on adding women. I show through selected examples how institutional frameworks and commitments may appear progressive but could have potentially exclusionary effects. Gender is an important lens to analyse peacebuilding practices and commitments, but only if viewed as an action or means of ‘doing’ that disrupts additive liberal approaches to peacebuilding. As an alternative, the article proposes a gender-relational and intersected analysis of everyday securities and peacebuilding. A focus on lived, gendered and racialised experiences of insecurity and peacebuilding at the everyday level offsets the abstract and universalised approach adopted by states as well as regional and continental players. The article concludes that approaches to gender mainstreaming through sameness, difference and diversity should be seen as complementary to allow space for a context-specific, thick analysis of gender relations on the ground as well as gendered processes of structural or institutional change.

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It Matters How You ‘Do’ Gender in Peacebuilding: African Approaches and Challenges

Hudson

2021

Insight on Africa

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“…To keep the international community interested and maintain the status that funding brings, women's organizations in the eastern DRC tend to emphasize the brutal and extensive nature of SGBV. The outcome is not straightforward—women's victimhood is reinforced—but at the same time, it could mean that so-called “victims” fight back, negotiating the “global patriarchal bargain” from below, simultaneously engaging with discourse and the material aspects of socioeconomic justice and empowerment (Jean-Bouchard 2013).…”

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(Re)framing the Relationship between Discourse and Materiality in Feminist Security Studies and Feminist IPE

Hudson

2015

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While feminists usually try to ground the meanings that they study, theorizing the mundane or the everyday may very well represent a detour—or even a dead end—if bread-and-butter issues related to the security and economic well-being of ordinary women and men are ignored. What value does feminist theorizing (even if it draws from women's lived experiences) have in war-affected contexts where meeting immediate needs is paramount? At what point does the theorizing of the body under such circumstances become a means to satisfying intellectual fetishes? Theorizing the everyday is messy because it has to contend with the immediate social setting in which popular culture is inseparable from the economic materiality of the conditions of oppression.

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Vers un institutionnalisme féministe et anthropologique: expériences congolaises multi-scalaires des femmes, du développement et du droit

Jean-Bouchard

2022

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'ét

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Sexual violence issues in eastern DRC: processes of global and local co-constitution

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

It Matters How You ‘Do’ Gender in Peacebuilding: African Approaches and Challenges

It Matters How You ‘Do’ Gender in Peacebuilding: African Approaches and Challenges

(Re)framing the Relationship between Discourse and Materiality in Feminist Security Studies and Feminist IPE

Vers un institutionnalisme féministe et anthropologique: expériences congolaises multi-scalaires des femmes, du développement et du droit

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