"This Patriarchal, Machista and Unequal Culture of Ours": Obstacles to Confronting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

IF 1.7 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIAL ISSUES

Social Politics Pub Date : 2022-06-16 DOI:10.1093/sp/jxac018

Anne-Kathrin Kreft

{"title":"\"This Patriarchal, Machista and Unequal Culture of Ours\": Obstacles to Confronting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence","authors":"Anne-Kathrin Kreft","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac018","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Prior research has established that conflict-related sexual violence against women is anchored in patriarchal norms and practices that assert gendered hierarchies. What remains relatively underresearched, however, is how patriarchal structures shape individual, social, and institutional responses to conflict-related sexual violence and its victims. This article sets out to shed light on this question, identifying different social and institutional processes that impede efforts to confront conflict-related sexual violence. The analysis of interviews with Colombian civil society activists illustrates how patriarchal norms and practices normalize sexual violence in society, but also ostracize, stigmatize, and ultimately seek to silence its victims. This risks obliterating conflict-related sexual violence from the political map and severely undermines the pursuit of justice. Power imbalances disadvantaging and further marginalizing the victims permeate these processes. Civil society organizations play an important role in reclaiming power for the victims, by overcoming disabling silences, making sexual violence visible, and confronting harmful patriarchal practices.","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"30 1","pages":"654 - 677"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Social Politics","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac018","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"SOCIAL ISSUES","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract:Prior research has established that conflict-related sexual violence against women is anchored in patriarchal norms and practices that assert gendered hierarchies. What remains relatively underresearched, however, is how patriarchal structures shape individual, social, and institutional responses to conflict-related sexual violence and its victims. This article sets out to shed light on this question, identifying different social and institutional processes that impede efforts to confront conflict-related sexual violence. The analysis of interviews with Colombian civil society activists illustrates how patriarchal norms and practices normalize sexual violence in society, but also ostracize, stigmatize, and ultimately seek to silence its victims. This risks obliterating conflict-related sexual violence from the political map and severely undermines the pursuit of justice. Power imbalances disadvantaging and further marginalizing the victims permeate these processes. Civil society organizations play an important role in reclaiming power for the victims, by overcoming disabling silences, making sexual violence visible, and confronting harmful patriarchal practices.

查看原文本刊更多论文

“我们的父权制、机械主义和不平等文化”：对抗与冲突有关的性暴力的障碍

摘要：先前的研究表明，与冲突有关的针对妇女的性暴力植根于父权制规范和实践，这些规范和实践主张性别等级制度。然而，仍然相对被低估的是，父权制结构如何影响个人、社会和制度对冲突相关性暴力及其受害者的反应。这篇文章旨在阐明这个问题，指出阻碍对抗与冲突有关的性暴力的不同社会和体制进程。对哥伦比亚民间社会活动家采访的分析表明，父权制规范和做法如何使社会中的性暴力正常化，但也排斥、污名化，并最终试图让受害者噤声。这有可能将与冲突有关的性暴力从政治地图上抹去，并严重破坏对正义的追求。权力失衡使受害者处于不利地位，并使其进一步边缘化，这渗透到这些进程中。民间社会组织在为受害者恢复权力方面发挥着重要作用，克服了令人致残的沉默，使性暴力显而易见，并对抗有害的父权制做法。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Social Politics Multiple-

CiteScore

4.70

自引率

10.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： Social Politics is the journal for incisive analyses of gender, politics and policy across the globe. It takes on the critical emerging issues of our age: globalization, transnationality and citizenship, migration, diversity and its intersections, the restructuring of capitalisms and states. We engage with feminist theoretical issues and with theories of welfare regimes, "varieties of capitalism," the ideational and cultural turns in social science, governmentality and postcolonialism. We are looking for articles that engage in this exciting mix of debates that will be of interest to our multidisciplinary and international audience.