Vulnerable women and barbaric rapists: legitimisation of UN interventionism in Mali
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<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2020.1779764?needAccess=true&instName=Nottingham+Trent+University&journalCode=rasr20" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2020.1779764?needAccess=true&instName=Nottingham+Trent+University&journalCode=rasr20</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2020.1779764" target="_blank" >10.1080/10246029.2020.1779764</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Vulnerable women and barbaric rapists: legitimisation of UN interventionism in Mali
Original language description
Examining the case of Mali, this work analyses the discursive strategies utilised by key actors to legitimise the UN’s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The analysis traces the legitimisation strategies deployed in both the official and unofficial discourses surrounding the operation. Using van Leeuwen’s conceptualisation of legitimisation, this work uncovers the subtle and not-so-subtle ways the dominant discourse foregrounds certain gendered harms. We argue that the primarily Western conceptualisation of the situation in Mali foregrounds the rape (of young girls) to form the strongest pro-intervention argument. Within this logic, the focus on the bodies of violated women and children aims at providing the undeniable and ultimate proof of barbarity of local rebels. This leads to an immediate need for deployment and continuation of a robust peacekeeping mission.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
African Security Review
ISSN
1024-6029
e-ISSN
2154-0128
Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
175-201
UT code for WoS article
000547413700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85087791586