The Political Psychology of War Rape

Skjelsbæk, Inger

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“…Stallings (2002) developed methodological tools for the study of natural disasters. Skjelsbæk (2007) wrote about the aftermath of the Bosnia-Herzegovinian war rapes. It is not for us to decide whether femicide is worse or better than these other atrocities; they are all social facts worthy of sociological study.…”

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Making femicide visible

Weil

2016

Current Sociology

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The sociological literature on femicide, compared to intimate partner and other forms of gender violence, is scarce. While feminist sociology has addressed the inaudibility of women, femicide remains invisible. Femicide rates are social facts worthy of sociological attention. Like suicide, femicide has to be defined and analysed according to type. The article postulates possible reasons for the invisibility of the phenomenon, such as the unpleasantness of the subject, scope, its conception as a radical feminist idea, fuzziness, its identification with other concepts like genocide, and methodological difficulties in researching it because of the impossibility of researching dead women first-hand, missing data and the difficulties in comparing data cross-nationally. None of the seven posited hypotheses could account for the dearth of sociological literature on the subject. Suggestions for enhancing the visibility of femicide are made, with a call to unearth the phenomenon and remove its invisibility in sociology.

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Making femicide visible

Weil

2016

Current Sociology

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“…According to this latter theory, soldiers engage in acts of sexual violence to respond to their individual needs or as a reward for their acts. Finally, strategic rape theory (Allen ; Littlewood ; Thomas and Regan ) suggests that sexual violence is used as a weapon of war to accomplish certain objectives in armed conflicts, such as humiliating and destroying the culture of the enemy group by targeting the victim's identity (Mertus ; Skjelsbaek ).…”

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Ethnic belonging of the children born out of rape in postconflict Bosnia‐Herzegovina and Rwanda

Hamel

2016

Nations and Nationalism

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Sexual violence has been used as a weapon of war in ethnic conflicts, and forced impregnations have been central to this strategy. Scholars however disagree on whether the cultural assimilation to the maternal group influences these children's identities, or whether they are perceived as belonging to the enemy group (Carpenter; Nikolic‐Ristanovic). Drawing on preliminary qualitative findings collected in 2013 in Rwanda and Bosnia‐Herzegovina, this paper analyses the ethnic identification imposed by the enemy group, the mothers and their community on the children born out of rape. It first explores how the mothers' ethnic identities are often subordinated to their fathers' ethnic background, and how this then justifies their social exclusion from their maternal ethnic group. This paper suggests that sexual violence is extremely effective in ensuring the continuation of the ethnic conflict in the aftermath of the violence by attacking the children's senses of belonging.

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“… 13. The genealogy of the transcultural memorial form of war rape is beyond the scope of this article. Suffice to say, the use of war rape in Bosnian war since 1992 and in Rwandan geniocide in 1994 contributed to the public recognition of earlier instances of gendered violence and rape such as Nanjing Massacre in 1937 and hence to the emergence of war rape as memorial form in the 1990s (Skjelsbæk, 2012; Yoshida, 2006). The United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict was opened in 2006.…”

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Born translated memories: Transcultural memorial forms, domestication and foreignisation

Laanes

2021

Memory Studies

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This article offers translation as a new model for conceptualising the transnational travel of memories that operates through transcultural memorial forms. It draws on translation studies, world literature studies and receptions studies to describe the domesticating and foreignising effects of memories that are ‘born translated’ and the ways they are received. The second part of the article discusses Sofi Oksanen’s novel Purge as a translation of memories of Soviet state terror through the transcultural memorial form of war rape and its foreignising effects in the local context of remembering of these events.

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The Political Psychology of War Rape

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Making femicide visible

Ethnic belonging of the children born out of rape in postconflict Bosnia‐Herzegovina and Rwanda

Born translated memories: Transcultural memorial forms, domestication and foreignisation

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