J Boesten
Biographic Data
| ID | 65922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Boesten |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Boesten |
| SIGNATURE | BOESTEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9262-5566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Intimidades militares
Este artículo explora cómo el sexo y la violencia formaron parte de la cotidianidad de los soldados en las fuerzas armadas peruanas durante el conflicto armado interno entre 1980 y 2000. Entrevistas en profundidad realizadas con veteranos indican la importancia del sexo y la violencia en la experiencia de los soldados y el proceso de conversión en combatientes. El artículo analiza la ambigüedad en las narrativas de los soldados sobre el sexo y la…
Debris
This article examines the impact of methodological choices and collaborative processes in a complex study that delved into the intimate experiences of violence as narrated by conscripts to the Peruvian armed forces. Lurgio Gavilán is a Peruvian anthropologist who strongly identifies with the interviewed veterans because of his own experiences, and Jelke Boesten is European feminist scholar with specific ideas about gender justice. Our collaborati…
Special Section introduction
Introduction to Special Section of the International Feminist Journal of Politics
Military Intimacies
This article explores how sex and violence were part of the everyday making of the soldier in the Peruvian armed forces during the internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000. In-depth interviews with Peruvian veterans indicate the importance of sex and violence in soldiers' experience of becoming a combatant. The article analyzes the ambiguity in soldiers' narratives about sex and violence, coercion, and consent, and how they are implicated in…
Justicia de género transformadora
Basándose en el trabajo de Andrea Durbach sobre la justicia de género postconflicto transformadora, este artículo se pregunta si la justicia penal por la violencia sexual relacionada con el conflicto - VSRC puede generar una justicia de género transformadora en América Latina. Este artículo presenta un análisis comparativo de los casos judiciales de VSRC: el caso Sepur Zarco en Guatemala y el caso Manta y Vilca en el Perú. Este artículo argumenta…
Transformative gender justice
Drawing on Andrea Durbach’s work around post-conflict transformative gender justice, this paper asks if criminal justice for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) can bring about transformative gender justice in Latin America. The paper offers a comparative analysis of two judicial cases of conflict-related rape: the Sepur Zarco case in Guatemala and the Manta y Vilca case in Peru. The paper argues that domestic courts can have important transf…
Politics after Violence
Between Fatigue and Silence
This paper discusses the meanings of research fatigue and silences in conflictrelated sexual violence research. Drawing on field experiences in Liberia, Tanzania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Peru, we discuss some of the unintended consequences of persistent focus on victim-survivors' narratives and argue for a reflexive feminist perspective that allows us to question the need and context of interviewing survivors and the associated insistence on …
Revisiting Methodologies and Approaches in Researching Sexual Violence in Conflict
This collection of papers debates how methodological choices affect what we can know about wartime sexual violence, and how this knowledge might influence policy making. These questions are examined from different disciplinary perspectives and cases by reflecting on methodology in terms of epistemology, ontology, and axiology. Considering not only the surge in global policy initiatives and media attention on sexual violence in conflict, but likew…
Of exceptions and continuities
In response to an emerging debate around qualitative and quantitative methods in sexual violence research, in this paper I explore the apparent unease between the two methodological approaches, and ask how empirical data with regard to sexual violence in conflict informs policy and calls for justice. I argue that the quantitative turn in conflict-related sexual violence research feeds into its exceptionalization and tends to divorce such violence…
Entre Memorias
Along the Bolivian Highway
Shakow, Miriam (2014) Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), ix + 259 pp. $65.00 hbk. There is much discussion among development economists about the recent ‘rise of the middle classes’ in the Global South. Do they exist? What is the monetary threshold for belonging to the middle class? How vulnerable are such groups to falling back into poverty…
Sexual Violence during War and Peace
Using the Peruvian internal armed conflict as a case study, this book examines wartime rape and how it reproduces and reinforces existing hierarchies. Jelke Boesten argues that effective responses to
Aligning faith-based and national HIV/Aids prevention responses? Factors influencing the HIV/Aids prevention policy process and response of faith-based NGOs in Tanzania
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have a long tradition of providing HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation services in Africa. The overall response of FBOs, however, has been controversial, particularly in regard to HIV/AIDS prevention and FBO's rejection of condom use and promotion, which can conflict with and negatively influence national HIV/AIDS prevention response efforts. This article reports the findings from a study that explored the factors …
Transformative gender justice
Choices women make
Carisa R. Showden, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 Carisa Showden is interested in women's agency in relation to disadvantageous structures and in how to increase the possibilities of such agen
The State and Violence Against Women in Peru
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 2012
Navigating the Aids Industry
This article shows how poor people living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania navigate a myriad of actors, agencies and organizations to obtain the aid they need to survive. It focuses on community‐based organizations which establish networks of care through which people obtain care, treatment and financial support. A case study of a roadside town in Tanzania illustrates that these community‐based networks of care — essential to the survival of many — are …
Service delivery on the cheap? Community-based workers in development interventions
Within current neo-liberal approaches to development, models of community-driven development assume that community-based workers (CBWs) are key actors in improved and accessible service delivery. We argue that use of CBWs is under-theorised and seems to be based largely on untested assumptions about community participation and responsibility. Drawing on case studies on potable-water management and home-based care for HIV/AIDS patients in Tanzania…
Customizing Indigeneity
Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America - Jaquette, Jane
Analyzing Rape Regimes at the Interface of War and Peace in Peru
Using the political conflict in Peru as a case study, the author argues that the thesis that rape is a weapon of war obscures other rape regimes during political conflict. These include rape as consumption, opportunistic rape, rape by neighbors or family members, forced prostitution and rape in the aftermath of war. Neglect of forms of sexual violence that do not fit the rape-as-a-weapon-of-war script seriously impedes the transformative potentia…
Analizando los regímenes de violación en la intersección entre la guerra y la paz en el Perú
Utilizando el conflicto político en el Perú (1980-2000) como estudio de caso, en este trabajo sostengo que el hecho de entender la violación como arma de guerra oculta otros regímenes de violación que tuvieron lugar durante el conflicto armado interno y que no encajan necesariamente con esta definición.Estas prácticas incluyen la violación como consumo, la violación oportunista, la violación perpetrada por vecinos o miembros de la familia, la pro…
Revisiting ‘democracy in the country and at home’ in Peru
This article explores the link between state violence, democracy, and violence against women in Peru. Using examples of how the state, at certain points in contemporary Peruvian history, has both used and challenged violence against women as political tools in pursuit of broader political gains, it suggests that the separation between private and public violence is less 'real' than political discourse often suggests. The democratic state is seen …
Aids in the Twenty-First Century
Drugs into Bodies: Global AIDS treatment activism, by Raymond A. Smith and Patricia D. Siplon. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. xiv + 196 pp. £24.65 (hardback). ISBN 0-27598-325-0. As AIDS in the Twenty-first Century clearly outlines, AIDS is a major global problem with impacts and outcomes that are still unpredictable. Despite the seemingly increased concern about AIDS, especially with regard to sub-Saharan Africa, efforts to counter its devastation…
Of exceptions and continuities
In response to an emerging debate around qualitative and quantitative methods in sexual violence research, in this paper I explore the apparent unease between the two methodological approaches, and ask how empirical data with regard to sexual violence in conflict informs policy and calls for justice. I argue that the quantitative turn in conflict-related sexual violence research feeds into its exceptionalization and tends to divorce such violence…
Between Fatigue and Silence
This paper discusses the meanings of research fatigue and silences in conflictrelated sexual violence research. Drawing on field experiences in Liberia, Tanzania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Peru, we discuss some of the unintended consequences of persistent focus on victim-survivors' narratives and argue for a reflexive feminist perspective that allows us to question the need and context of interviewing survivors and the associated insistence on …
Transformative gender justice
The State and Violence Against Women in Peru
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 2012
Free Choice or Poverty Alleviation? Population Politics in Peru under Alberto Fujimori
In the second half of the 1990s, the Fujimori government in Peru implemented a population policy to sterilize poor, rural and indigenous women according to quotas. How such a neoMalthusian policy was possible in a post-Cairo, post-Beijing era of increasing attention for women’s rights has, however, been relatively understudied. This article argues that the government could impose such policies because 1) it presented its plans with a deceiving rh…
Service delivery on the cheap? Community-based workers in development interventions
Within current neo-liberal approaches to development, models of community-driven development assume that community-based workers (CBWs) are key actors in improved and accessible service delivery. We argue that use of CBWs is under-theorised and seems to be based largely on untested assumptions about community participation and responsibility. Drawing on case studies on potable-water management and home-based care for HIV/AIDS patients in Tanzania…
Analyzing Rape Regimes at the Interface of War and Peace in Peru
Using the political conflict in Peru as a case study, the author argues that the thesis that rape is a weapon of war obscures other rape regimes during political conflict. These include rape as consumption, opportunistic rape, rape by neighbors or family members, forced prostitution and rape in the aftermath of war. Neglect of forms of sexual violence that do not fit the rape-as-a-weapon-of-war script seriously impedes the transformative potentia…
Pushing Back the Boundaries
This article looks at the extent to which Peruvian women have been able to use a legal and institutional framework designed to combat domestic violence, despite its significant defects, in order to transform the authoritarian forms of communication that prevail in their families, organisations, and communities. Using in-depth interviews with women in Lima, Huancavelica and Ayacucho, the article suggests that while democratisation from above may o…
Navigating the Aids Industry
This article shows how poor people living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania navigate a myriad of actors, agencies and organizations to obtain the aid they need to survive. It focuses on community‐based organizations which establish networks of care through which people obtain care, treatment and financial support. A case study of a roadside town in Tanzania illustrates that these community‐based networks of care — essential to the survival of many — are …
Revisiting Methodologies and Approaches in Researching Sexual Violence in Conflict
This collection of papers debates how methodological choices affect what we can know about wartime sexual violence, and how this knowledge might influence policy making. These questions are examined from different disciplinary perspectives and cases by reflecting on methodology in terms of epistemology, ontology, and axiology. Considering not only the surge in global policy initiatives and media attention on sexual violence in conflict, but likew…
Transformative gender justice
Drawing on Andrea Durbach’s work around post-conflict transformative gender justice, this paper asks if criminal justice for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) can bring about transformative gender justice in Latin America. The paper offers a comparative analysis of two judicial cases of conflict-related rape: the Sepur Zarco case in Guatemala and the Manta y Vilca case in Peru. The paper argues that domestic courts can have important transf…
Debris
This article examines the impact of methodological choices and collaborative processes in a complex study that delved into the intimate experiences of violence as narrated by conscripts to the Peruvian armed forces. Lurgio Gavilán is a Peruvian anthropologist who strongly identifies with the interviewed veterans because of his own experiences, and Jelke Boesten is European feminist scholar with specific ideas about gender justice. Our collaborati…
Aligning faith-based and national HIV/Aids prevention responses? Factors influencing the HIV/Aids prevention policy process and response of faith-based NGOs in Tanzania
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have a long tradition of providing HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation services in Africa. The overall response of FBOs, however, has been controversial, particularly in regard to HIV/AIDS prevention and FBO's rejection of condom use and promotion, which can conflict with and negatively influence national HIV/AIDS prevention response efforts. This article reports the findings from a study that explored the factors …
Revisiting ‘democracy in the country and at home’ in Peru
This article explores the link between state violence, democracy, and violence against women in Peru. Using examples of how the state, at certain points in contemporary Peruvian history, has both used and challenged violence against women as political tools in pursuit of broader political gains, it suggests that the separation between private and public violence is less 'real' than political discourse often suggests. The democratic state is seen …
Pushing Back the Boundaries
This article looks at the extent to which Peruvian women have been able to use a legal and institutional framework designed to combat domestic violence, despite its significant defects, in order to transform the authoritarian forms of communication that prevail in their families, organisations, and communities. Using in-depth interviews with women in Lima, Huancavelica and Ayacucho, the article suggests that while democratisation from above may o…
Free Choice or Poverty Alleviation? Population Politics in Peru under Alberto Fujimori
In the second half of the 1990s, the Fujimori government in Peru implemented a population policy to sterilize poor, rural and indigenous women according to quotas. How such a neoMalthusian policy was possible in a post-Cairo, post-Beijing era of increasing attention for women’s rights has, however, been relatively understudied. This article argues that the government could impose such policies because 1) it presented its plans with a deceiving rh…
Aids in the Twenty-First Century
Drugs into Bodies: Global AIDS treatment activism, by Raymond A. Smith and Patricia D. Siplon. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. xiv + 196 pp. £24.65 (hardback). ISBN 0-27598-325-0. As AIDS in the Twenty-first Century clearly outlines, AIDS is a major global problem with impacts and outcomes that are still unpredictable. Despite the seemingly increased concern about AIDS, especially with regard to sub-Saharan Africa, efforts to counter its devastation…
Analyzing Rape Regimes at the Interface of War and Peace in Peru
Using the political conflict in Peru as a case study, the author argues that the thesis that rape is a weapon of war obscures other rape regimes during political conflict. These include rape as consumption, opportunistic rape, rape by neighbors or family members, forced prostitution and rape in the aftermath of war. Neglect of forms of sexual violence that do not fit the rape-as-a-weapon-of-war script seriously impedes the transformative potentia…
Analizando los regímenes de violación en la intersección entre la guerra y la paz en el Perú
Utilizando el conflicto político en el Perú (1980-2000) como estudio de caso, en este trabajo sostengo que el hecho de entender la violación como arma de guerra oculta otros regímenes de violación que tuvieron lugar durante el conflicto armado interno y que no encajan necesariamente con esta definición.Estas prácticas incluyen la violación como consumo, la violación oportunista, la violación perpetrada por vecinos o miembros de la familia, la pro…
Revisiting ‘democracy in the country and at home’ in Peru
This article explores the link between state violence, democracy, and violence against women in Peru. Using examples of how the state, at certain points in contemporary Peruvian history, has both used and challenged violence against women as political tools in pursuit of broader political gains, it suggests that the separation between private and public violence is less 'real' than political discourse often suggests. The democratic state is seen …
Navigating the Aids Industry
This article shows how poor people living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania navigate a myriad of actors, agencies and organizations to obtain the aid they need to survive. It focuses on community‐based organizations which establish networks of care through which people obtain care, treatment and financial support. A case study of a roadside town in Tanzania illustrates that these community‐based networks of care — essential to the survival of many — are …
Service delivery on the cheap? Community-based workers in development interventions
Within current neo-liberal approaches to development, models of community-driven development assume that community-based workers (CBWs) are key actors in improved and accessible service delivery. We argue that use of CBWs is under-theorised and seems to be based largely on untested assumptions about community participation and responsibility. Drawing on case studies on potable-water management and home-based care for HIV/AIDS patients in Tanzania…
Customizing Indigeneity
Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America - Jaquette, Jane
The State and Violence Against Women in Peru
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 2012
Choices women make
Carisa R. Showden, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 Carisa Showden is interested in women's agency in relation to disadvantageous structures and in how to increase the possibilities of such agen
Sexual Violence during War and Peace
Using the Peruvian internal armed conflict as a case study, this book examines wartime rape and how it reproduces and reinforces existing hierarchies. Jelke Boesten argues that effective responses to
Aligning faith-based and national HIV/Aids prevention responses? Factors influencing the HIV/Aids prevention policy process and response of faith-based NGOs in Tanzania
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have a long tradition of providing HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation services in Africa. The overall response of FBOs, however, has been controversial, particularly in regard to HIV/AIDS prevention and FBO's rejection of condom use and promotion, which can conflict with and negatively influence national HIV/AIDS prevention response efforts. This article reports the findings from a study that explored the factors …
Transformative gender justice
Entre Memorias
Along the Bolivian Highway
Shakow, Miriam (2014) Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), ix + 259 pp. $65.00 hbk. There is much discussion among development economists about the recent ‘rise of the middle classes’ in the Global South. Do they exist? What is the monetary threshold for belonging to the middle class? How vulnerable are such groups to falling back into poverty…
Of exceptions and continuities
In response to an emerging debate around qualitative and quantitative methods in sexual violence research, in this paper I explore the apparent unease between the two methodological approaches, and ask how empirical data with regard to sexual violence in conflict informs policy and calls for justice. I argue that the quantitative turn in conflict-related sexual violence research feeds into its exceptionalization and tends to divorce such violence…
Between Fatigue and Silence
This paper discusses the meanings of research fatigue and silences in conflictrelated sexual violence research. Drawing on field experiences in Liberia, Tanzania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Peru, we discuss some of the unintended consequences of persistent focus on victim-survivors' narratives and argue for a reflexive feminist perspective that allows us to question the need and context of interviewing survivors and the associated insistence on …
Revisiting Methodologies and Approaches in Researching Sexual Violence in Conflict
This collection of papers debates how methodological choices affect what we can know about wartime sexual violence, and how this knowledge might influence policy making. These questions are examined from different disciplinary perspectives and cases by reflecting on methodology in terms of epistemology, ontology, and axiology. Considering not only the surge in global policy initiatives and media attention on sexual violence in conflict, but likew…
Politics after Violence
Transformative gender justice
Drawing on Andrea Durbach’s work around post-conflict transformative gender justice, this paper asks if criminal justice for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) can bring about transformative gender justice in Latin America. The paper offers a comparative analysis of two judicial cases of conflict-related rape: the Sepur Zarco case in Guatemala and the Manta y Vilca case in Peru. The paper argues that domestic courts can have important transf…
Justicia de género transformadora
Basándose en el trabajo de Andrea Durbach sobre la justicia de género postconflicto transformadora, este artículo se pregunta si la justicia penal por la violencia sexual relacionada con el conflicto - VSRC puede generar una justicia de género transformadora en América Latina. Este artículo presenta un análisis comparativo de los casos judiciales de VSRC: el caso Sepur Zarco en Guatemala y el caso Manta y Vilca en el Perú. Este artículo argumenta…
Military Intimacies
This article explores how sex and violence were part of the everyday making of the soldier in the Peruvian armed forces during the internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000. In-depth interviews with Peruvian veterans indicate the importance of sex and violence in soldiers' experience of becoming a combatant. The article analyzes the ambiguity in soldiers' narratives about sex and violence, coercion, and consent, and how they are implicated in…
Debris
This article examines the impact of methodological choices and collaborative processes in a complex study that delved into the intimate experiences of violence as narrated by conscripts to the Peruvian armed forces. Lurgio Gavilán is a Peruvian anthropologist who strongly identifies with the interviewed veterans because of his own experiences, and Jelke Boesten is European feminist scholar with specific ideas about gender justice. Our collaborati…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Sexual violence (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (7 works) · Politics (7 works)