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‘We Were Controlled, We Were Not Allowed to Express Our Sexuality, Our Intimacy Was Suppressed’: Sexual Violence Experienced by Boys
- Author(s):
- Omer Aijazi (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Anthropology, Narrative theory and Narratology, Political Philosophy & Theory
- Subject(s):
- War, Africa, East
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- uganda, boys, child soldier, reintegration, Gender and sexualities, War and conflict, Gender studies, Gender and sexuality, Gender, East Africa
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/38nc-4g88
- Abstract:
- Why are academic and policy discourses on child soldiers relatively silent on sexual violence against boys in armed groups? Drawing from the experiences of boys forcibly conscripted into the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), this Chapter seeks to transcend the gendered language of sexual slavery, concubines, forced pregnancy and rape. Most sexual and intimate relations in the LRA were violent impositions given the group’s modus operandi of forced conscription and sexual regulation. Keeping this in mind, this Chapter maps the multiple forms of sexual violence experienced by boys following their abduction and coming of age within the armed group. We note the erasures and conceptual challenges the category of the child soldier poses and highlight the need to advance analytical assemblages that extend beyond ageist and gendered understandings of sexual violence.
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- Published as:
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- Book Title:
- Research Handbook on Child Soldiers
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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‘We Were Controlled, We Were Not Allowed to Express Our Sexuality, Our Intimacy Was Suppressed’: Sexual Violence Experienced by Boys