Original scientific paper

The rapists’ progress: ethnicity, gender and violence

Silva Mežnarić ; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb

Abstract

The paper examines two cases of rape as politics where violence, gender, ethnicity intersected with tragic consequences. First, the Serbian media campaign against the Albanians as rapists in Kosovo in 1990 has been examined; secondly, the rape as politics of ethnic cleansing in the Serbian aggression in Bosnia in 1992-1993 was analyzed. It has been shown that Serbian media’s rape campaign against Kosovo Albanians as perpetrators has been prelude to the actual rapes by Serbian soldiers in Bosnia. In both cases, rape served as the special mean for defining the boundary of the Serbian ethnic niche in the Balkans.

Keywords

ethnic boundary; ethnic politics; violence; gender; rape; discourse; actual rape; ethnic cleansing

Hrčak ID:

154890

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154890

Publication date:

31.12.1993.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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