War and Rape: A Preliminary Analysis

Seifert, Ruth

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“…Gender‐selective killing, sexual violence, and forced migration typify socially destructive processes of genocide (see Jones 2009; Maybury‐Lewis ; Seifert ). Many argue these crimes can constitute genocide (Hagan & Kaiser ; MacKinnon ), and international law concurs (Genocide Convention ; Prosecutor v. Akayesu ).…”

Section: Forgotten Victims Of Genocidementioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, we elaborate the social nature of genocide by building on Hagan and coauthors (; 2011a) and Shaw (), clarifying how sexual violence and displacement can be genocidal. Next, we use Seifert's () and Jones's () feminist approaches to hypothesize that gender‐selective targeting of genocidal violence ( a ) relies on perceptions of women as bearers of culture and community, and men as a culture's default members and users, and ( b ) produces a gendered meaning‐making process whereby men receive a message of elimination through sexual victimization of women while women receive that message through killings of men. Copelon's () and Schabas's () asocial accounts of genocide, displacement, and rape provide null hypotheses.…”

Section: Forgotten Victims Of Genocidementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ruth Seifert () presented five (untested) hypotheses about mass rape after Bosnia's genocide, and two address elimination . First, she argues, “Rapes in wartime aim at destroying the opponents' culture” (62).…”

Section: Gendered Genocide: Hypotheses About Social Processes Of Elimmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Overall patterns recur in mass atrocities (Mann ). Seifert's () hypotheses, based in Bosnia, hold in Darfur despite dissimilar contexts. Anchored in patriarchal cultural logics, our hypotheses likewise broadly apply in today's universally patriarchal world (Jones 2009; Britton ).…”

Section: Gendered Crime and Communication In The Genocidal Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We too often uncritically accept one group's experiences as representative of an entire phenomenon, and the defining group is too often the dominant, hegemonic one. Sexual violence, for instance, more often targets women than men, so its presence in wartime and genocide is consistently ignored (Seifert ; Copelon ). Even recognizing genocidal crimes that more often target women, children, and the elderly is not enough, however.…”

Section: Conclusion: the Gendered Process Of Genocidementioning

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: Forgotten Victims Of Genocidementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Forgotten Victims Of Genocidementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gendered Genocide: Hypotheses About Social Processes Of Elimmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gendered Crime and Communication In The Genocidal Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conclusion: the Gendered Process Of Genocidementioning

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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Wartime Sexual Violence: A Historical Review of the Law, Theory, and Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict

Wilson

Cook

2021

Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan

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Politics of mass rapes in ethnic conflict: a morphodynamics of raw madness and cooked evil

Doja

2018

Crime Law Soc Change

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To explain war rapes in former Yugoslavia, the work of cultural ideology is never complete, but an unstable relation between cultural activism and cultural norms and practices provides the point of departure to move beyond the stereotyped accounts of mass rapes and develop a neo-structural model of canonical formalization based on discourse analysis and transformational morphodynamics. Methodologically, the new model takes lead from the abstract mathematical operations and canonical transformations suggested by Lévi-Strauss for the structural study of myth. The assumption is that mass rapes are fueled by a specific cultural activism that activates a cultural ideology that makes mass rapes effective in a military strategy of ethnic cleansing.

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War and Rape: A Preliminary Analysis

Cited by 29 publications

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

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

Wartime Sexual Violence: A Historical Review of the Law, Theory, and Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict

Politics of mass rapes in ethnic conflict: a morphodynamics of raw madness and cooked evil

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