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Abstract
This paper 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 paper analyses the ambiguity in soldiers’ narratives about sex and violence, coercion, and consent, and how they are implicated in both receiving and enacting sexualised violence. In particular, the paper discusses veterans’ accounts of collective experiences of sexualised hazing, abuse of women and girls, porn and prostitution, and references to gang rape. The paper argues that soldiers, while in the army, experience intimacy through performative practices of sex and violence which profoundly affects their interaction with each other, and the violence they perpetrate against enemy populations. These military intimacies, encouraged through institutional as well as cultural practices, help explain the prevalence of widespread sexual violence during the conflict.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 762-778 |
Journal | LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 May 2023 |
Keywords
- Sexual Violence
- Military
- Peru
- Gender
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Intimacies of Violence: Veterans accounts of gender and warfare and its aftermath in Peru
Boesten, J. (Primary Investigator)
1/05/2019 → 30/08/2022
Project: Research
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Debris. Autoethnography, Feminist Epistemology, Ethics, and Sexual Violence
Boesten, J. & Gavilán, L., 4 Jun 2024, In: International Feminist Journal of Politics. 26, 3, p. 523-543 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Perros y promos: Memoria, violencia y afecto en el Perú posconflicto
Boesten, J. & Gavilán, L., 20 May 2023, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Justicia de género transformadora. Procedimientos penales por violencia sexual relacionados con el conflicto en Guatemala y el Perú
Boesten, J., Dec 2022, In: Debates en Sociología. 55, p. 43-68 25 p.Translated title of the contribution :Transformative Gender Justice Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access