Beyond Vulnerability: Exploring the Political Agency of Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence

超越脆弱性：探索战时性暴力男性幸存者的政治机构

• 批准号: 426849903
• 负责人: Dr. Philipp Schulz
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/426849903?language=en
• 关键词: Beyond; Vulnerability; Exploring; Political; Agency

Although conflict-related sexual violence against men occurs more frequently than assumed, these crimes remain consistently under-researched. The few existing studies primarily focus on the gendered harms and vulnerabilities as experienced by male survivors. As a result, wartime sexual violence against men, and male survivors' lived realities, have thus far exclusively been examined through the frame of vulnerabilities, portraying male survivors as passive, humiliated and stripped of their gender identities. However, how in spite of their gendered vulnerabilities, male sexual violence survivors also actively engage with and respond to their conflict-related experiences and gendered harms, and thereby exercise myriad forms of political agency, has not yet been explored. To address this lacuna in the literature, this project asks: What are the different forms of and conditions for male sexual violence survivors' political agency? This analysis is of scholarly significance, as it paints a more holistic and nuanced empirically-grounded picture of the gender dynamics of armed conflict and wartime sexual violence generally, and of male survivors' experiences specifically. These empirically-grounded insights thereby also foster an in-depth understanding regarding the long-lasting effects of conflict on civilians and war-affected communities more broadly. Utilizing Northern Uganda and Sri Lanka as explorative case studies, the comparative analysis thereby moves beyond previous research that has focused either on the gendered vulnerabilities of male survivors or the political agency of women in warzones. Novel empirical data will be collected through interpretative and ethnographic qualitative methods, including key-informant interviews, group-based story-telling sessions and life story oral history interviews with male survivors. Elucidating the seldom-heard voices of male sexual violence survivors, the project thus paints a different kind of war story with academic and political significance. By examining the lived realities of male sexual violence survivors with attention to agency, the project will make novel empirical and theoretical contributions to intersecting bodies of scholarship on international relations, peace and conflict research and gender studies. Specifically, the project ventures into research to significantly advance scholarship on wartime sexual violence, thereby moving forward the frontiers of knowledge on gendered examinations of conflict.

尽管与冲突有关的针对男性的性暴力发生的频率比想象的要高，但这些犯罪行为始终没有得到充分研究。现有的少数研究主要关注男性幸存者所经历的性别伤害和脆弱性。因此，迄今为止，针对男性的战时性暴力以及男性幸存者的生活现实都完全通过脆弱性的框架来审视，将男性幸存者描绘成被动的、羞辱的和被剥夺的性别身份。然而，尽管男性性暴力幸存者存在性别脆弱性，但他们如何积极参与并应对与冲突相关的经历和性别伤害，从而行使多种形式的政治能动性，这一点尚未得到探讨。为了解决文献中的这一空白，本项目提出以下问题：男性性暴力幸存者的政治机构有哪些不同的形式和条件？这一分析具有学术意义，因为它对武装冲突和战时性暴力的性别动态，特别是男性幸存者的经历，描绘了一幅更全面、更细致的、基于经验的图景。因此，这些基于经验的见解也促进了对冲突对平民和更广泛的受战争影响社区的长期影响的深入了解。利用乌干达北部和斯里兰卡作为探索性案例研究，比较分析超越了以前的研究，这些研究要么关注男性幸存者的性别脆弱性，要么关注战区妇女的政治机构。新的实证数据将通过解释性和人种学定性方法收集，包括关键信息访谈、基于小组的故事讲述会议以及对男性幸存者的生活故事口述历史访谈。该项目阐明了男性性暴力幸存者鲜为人知的声音，从而描绘了一个具有学术和政治意义的不同类型的战争故事。通过审视男性性暴力幸存者的生活现实并关注机构，该项目将为国际关系、和平与冲突研究以及性别研究的交叉学术机构做出新颖的实证和理论贡献。具体来说，该项目致力于研究，以显着推进战时性暴力的学术研究，从而推进冲突性别审查的知识前沿。