Legitimizing Military Action through “Rape-as-a-Weapon” Discourse in Libya: Critical Feminist Analysis
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26482789%3A_____%2F18%3AN0000096" target="_blank" >RIV/26482789:_____/18:N0000096 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/abs/legitimizing-military-action-through-rapeasaweapon-discourse-in-libya-critical-feminist-analysis/DF945D855540EF7A2B341B372290C1CE" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/abs/legitimizing-military-action-through-rapeasaweapon-discourse-in-libya-critical-feminist-analysis/DF945D855540EF7A2B341B372290C1CE</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X18000326" target="_blank" >10.1017/S1743923X18000326</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Legitimizing Military Action through “Rape-as-a-Weapon” Discourse in Libya: Critical Feminist Analysis
Original language description
Contemporary discourse on sexual(ized) violence in armed conflicts represents a powerful source for legitimization of highly controversial military interventions. Recent gender-responsive security studies have called for enhanced protection of women and girls from widespread and systematic sexual(ized) violence. Yet military operations reproduce the Western masculine hegemony rather than providing inclusive and apolitical assistance to victims of sexual assault. The article aims to critically assess discourse on sexual violence in a case of military intervention in Libya initiated under the rubric of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). The case study indicates a set of discursive strategies exercised by Western political representatives and nongovernmental organizations and even more expressively by the media to legitimize the military campaign. Typically, sexual(ized) violence is presented as a weapon of war, used by one of the conflicting parties without an adequate response of the state. This is followed by urgent calls for international action, willingly carried out by Western powers. The simplified narrative of civilized protectors versus savage aggressors must be challenged as it exploits the problem of sexual(ized) violence in order to legitimize politically motivated actions.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Politics & Gender
ISSN
1743-9248
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2018
Issue of the periodical within the volume
15 (1)
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
130-150
UT code for WoS article
000460947000013
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85052658713