Shifting gender roles: an analysis of violence against women in post-conflict Uganda

被引:15
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作者
Sengupta, Anasuya
Calo, Muriel
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关键词
Gender and diversity; Conflict and reconstruction; Civil society - NGOs; Sub-Saharan Africa;
D O I
10.1080/09614524.2016.1149151
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Based on findings from a qualitative study in northern Uganda, this article explores factors leading to gender-based violence (GBV) in the post-conflict African context. The crisis of masculinity becomes crucial to understanding women's vulnerability to GBV. This crisis stems from the trauma of losing one's internal resources - socially constructed identity role and purpose, and one's external resources - wealth and productive assets. We find that armed conflict replaces the positive male identity as household head with a destructive model of masculinity. It is the interaction between negative masculinities and extreme poverty that characterises the prevalence of GBV in such conditions. Sur la base des conclusions d'une etude qualitative menee dans le nord de l'Ouganda, cet article examine les facteurs aboutissant a la violence sexiste dans le contexte africain post-conflit. La crise de la masculinite devient cruciale au moment de comprendre la vulnerabilite des femmes faces a la violence sexiste. Cette crise decoule du traumatisme qu'entraine pour une personne la perte de ses propres ressources internes - identite, role et finalite socialement construits, et de ses ressources internes - richesses et biens de production. Nous constatons que le conflit arme remplace l'identite masculine positive de chef de famille par un modele destructeur de masculinite. C'est l'interaction entre les masculinites negatives et la pauvrete extreme qui caracterise la prevalence de la violence sexiste dans ces conditions. Basandose en los hallazgos surgidos de un estudio cualitativo efectuado en el norte de Uganda, el presente articulo examina los factores generadores de violencia basada en el genero (vbg) en un contexto africano de posconflicto. Para comprender la vulnerabilidad a que se ven expuestas las mujeres debido a la vbg, la crisis de la masculinidad en este tipo de contexto adquiere un rol crucial. Esta es consecuencia del trauma generado por la perdida de recursos internos roles de identidad y de finalidad construidos socialmente y de recursos externos riqueza y activos productivos. En este sentido, las autoras identificaron que el conflicto armado remplaza la positiva identidad masculina como jefe de familia por un modelo de masculinidad destructivo, dando lugar a que, en estas condiciones, prevalezca la VBG generada por la interaccion entre las masculinidades negativas y la pobreza extrema.
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