1. Politics of mass rapes in ethnic conflict: A morphodynamics of raw madness and cooked evil
- Author
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Albert Doja, Institut de Sociologie et d'Anthropologie, Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 (CLERSÉ), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and University of Lille
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Viols de guerre ,Discourse analysis ,media_common.quotation_subject ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Military strategy ,Ethnic conflict ,02 engineering and technology ,Criminology ,neostructural analysis ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Politics ,[SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law ,cultural ideology ,Purification ethnique ,Rapes ,Sociology ,Sexual violence ,0505 law ,media_common ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,ethnic conflict ,05 social sciences ,General Social Sciences ,Mythology ,[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology ,16. Peace & justice ,Ethnic Cleansing ,Morphodynamics ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science ,050501 criminology ,Ideology ,[SHS.GENRE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Gender studies ,Law ,war rape - Abstract
International audience; To explain war rapes in former Yugoslavia, the work of cultural ideology is never complete, but an unstable relation between cultural activism and cultural norms and practices provides the point of departure to move beyond the stereotyped accounts of mass rapes and develop a neo-structural model of canonical formalization based on discourse analysis and transformational morphodynamics. Methodologically, the new model takes lead from the abstract mathematical operations and canonical transformations suggested by Lévi-Strauss for the structural study of myth. The assumption is that mass rapes are fueled by a specific cultural activism that activates a cultural ideology that makes mass rapes effective in a military strategy of ethnic cleansing.
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- 2019