Le viol : un crime spécifique. Quelques pistes de réflexions issues de l’anthropologie

This article attempts to define 'wartime' rape from a social science rather than a legal point of view: the term is a cliché that needs to be deconstructed in order to better describe the facts: the 'systematic rapes' committed in the former Yugoslavia (1991-95) are different in...

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Main Author: Véronique Nahoum-Grappe
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Language:English
Published: Criminocorpus 2024-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/14947
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description This article attempts to define 'wartime' rape from a social science rather than a legal point of view: the term is a cliché that needs to be deconstructed in order to better describe the facts: the 'systematic rapes' committed in the former Yugoslavia (1991-95) are different in terms of their political meaning and concrete practice from those more conventionally described as rewards and spoils for warriors in the event of military victory. Moreover, 'wartime rape' needs to be placed in its historical context, and also in terms of the situation in real time. These sexual crimes must then be seen as torture in a situation of impunity, in a logic of domination; they are crimes of defilement where shame and guilt fall on the side of the victim and whose deliberate political use as a tactic designed to destroy the social fabric of the enemy civilian population needs to be investigated in a specific way (as for example currently in the war in Ukraine (2022-20??).
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Le viol : un crime spécifique. Quelques pistes de réflexions issues de l’anthropologie
Criminocorpus
wartime rape
ethnic
cleansing
genocide
shame
domination
title Le viol : un crime spécifique. Quelques pistes de réflexions issues de l’anthropologie
title_full Le viol : un crime spécifique. Quelques pistes de réflexions issues de l’anthropologie
title_fullStr Le viol : un crime spécifique. Quelques pistes de réflexions issues de l’anthropologie
title_full_unstemmed Le viol : un crime spécifique. Quelques pistes de réflexions issues de l’anthropologie
title_short Le viol : un crime spécifique. Quelques pistes de réflexions issues de l’anthropologie
title_sort le viol un crime specifique quelques pistes de reflexions issues de l anthropologie
topic wartime rape
ethnic
cleansing
genocide
shame
domination
url https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/14947
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