Legitimizing Military Action through “Rape-as-a-Weapon” Discourse in Libya: Critical Feminist Analysis

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Legitimizing Military Action through “Rape-as-a-Weapon” Discourse in Libya: Critical Feminist Analysis

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Legitimizing Military Action through “Rape-as-a-Weapon” Discourse in Libya: Critical Feminist Analysis

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Politics & Gender

ISSN

1743-9248

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

2018

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

15 (1)

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

130-150

Kód UT WoS článku

000460947000013

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85052658713