The Hollow Shell
Children Born of War and the Realities of the Armed Conflict in Colombia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tatiana Sánchez Parra (0000-0002-5750-7481, University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-63 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Transitional Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-7716 • E-ISSN: 1752-7724 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ijtj/ijx029 |
| OpenAlex | W2768475177 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
This article discusses tensions and dynamics around configuring children born as a result of wartime sexual violence as subjects within the realities in which transitional justice operates. Based on ethnographic research in Colombia, the article explores how a victimhood discourse and an explanatory framing to understand gender-based violence and sexual violence as a weapon of war, have restricted the emergence of these children as independent war-affected subjects. Instead, they have emerged as subjects that play a part in the social negotiations around victims of wartime sexual violence – for instance, gender and forced maternity – or around perpetrators and their constant presence in the history of the communities. To understand the plight and role of these subjects within the political community, transitional justice frameworks must contest the normative approach to harm, as these women and men were conceived by war but are not defined by it
CONTEST · Criminology · Ethnography · Framing (construction · Harm · Negotiation · Normative · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Sexual violence · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Transitional justice · Anthropology · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Gender Studies · History · Law
It’s Like Giving Birth to This Girl Again”
This Patriarchal, Machista and Unequal Culture of Ours”
Children and youth born of conflict-related sexual violence
Children Born of War
The meaning of land and place for children born of war in northern Uganda
The endurance of women’s mobilization during “patriarchal backlash”
Addressing Past Injustice, Empowering for the Future? Reparation Policies and ‘Victim’ or ‘Survivor’ Identities in Tolima, Colombia
Identity formation and change in children and youth born of wartime sexual violence in northern Uganda
Securing the Future
Born between war and peace
(Re)Productive Discourses
The Colombian Truth Commission's work on reproductive violence
Reproductive justice in the Colombian armed conflict
| Citations per year | 2.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |