1st Edition

Sexuality after War Rape From Narrative to Embodied Research

By Nena Močnik Copyright 2018
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the potential impact of rape survivors’ traumatic experiences in post-conflict zones. With specific attention given to the experiences of women who were sexually abused during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, it addresses the sexuality of survivors, which has so far been inadequately researched, and challenges the stereotypical and victimized images and narrations that... Read more

Preface

Introduction

1. Researching War-Rape Narratives

1.1 Important Ethical Questions and Potential Risks

1.2 Body as a Research Territory: From Verbal to Embodied Research Practices

2. Imagining the (Ethno)Sexualities

2. 1 Contextual Understanding of Sexuality and Sexual Violence

2.2 The Epistemological Evolution of Ethnosexuality through Violence in the Balkans

2.3 (A)Sexualized Rape Survivors as Imagined Community

3. Creating the War-Rape Story

3.1 From Eternal Victims to Sexual Predators

4. Narrating A(na)esthetics of Sexuality and Violence

5. Critical Reflection Embodied

5.1 Drama-based Practice wtih Survivors

5.2 Performative Act as a Critical Response of Research Process

6. Thinking the Desire Aftermath

Epilogue

Index

Biography

Nena Močnik holds a PhD in Balkan Studies (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia). She is a postdoctoral researcher at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and researcher at SELMA, Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, Turku, Finland.