The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology

IF 1 2区 社会学 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Emma Dolan
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Abstract This article focuses on the performative recognition offered to victims through political apologies for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). It engages with understandings of political apology as an act of acknowledgment and moral visibility that has the capacity to further include marginalized accounts of violence or injustice within exclusive national histories/memberships. I introduce feminist understandings of visibility as ambivalent alongside a differential politics of “grievability” in order to suggest that political apologies must always recognize and make visible particular accounts of violence and subject positions; however, they simultaneously obscure others. I problematize the gendered and gendering effects of this process in relation to two cases of apology for CRSV: the Japanese imperial “comfort women” and the US Abu Ghraib torture scandal during the Global War on Terror (GWoT).
政治道歉中的性别认同政治
摘要本文着重于通过对冲突相关性暴力(CRSV)的政治道歉向受害者提供的表演性认可。它将政治道歉理解为一种承认和道德可见性的行为,有能力将暴力或不公正的边缘化描述进一步纳入专属的国家历史/成员范围。我引入了女权主义对可见性的理解,认为可见性是矛盾的,同时也引入了“可悲伤性”的差异政治,以表明政治道歉必须始终承认暴力和主题立场,并做出明显的具体描述;然而,它们同时掩盖了其他人。我对这一过程的性别化和性别化影响提出了质疑,涉及两起为CRSV道歉的案件:日本帝国“慰安妇”和全球反恐战争期间美国阿布格莱布酷刑丑闻。
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