"Subjects of change": feminist geopolitics and gendered truth-telling in Guatemala

This paper explores the often-undervalued role of gender in transitional justice mechanisms and the importance of women's struggles and agency in that regard. We focus on the efforts of the women's movement in Guatemala to address questions of justice and healing for survivors of gendered...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Journal of international women's studies 2012-09, Vol.13 (4), p.82-99
Hauptverfasser: Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca, Oglesby, Elizabeth, Marston, Sallie
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
container_end_page 99
container_issue 4
container_start_page 82
container_title Journal of international women's studies
container_volume 13
creator Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca
Oglesby, Elizabeth
Marston, Sallie
description This paper explores the often-undervalued role of gender in transitional justice mechanisms and the importance of women's struggles and agency in that regard. We focus on the efforts of the women's movement in Guatemala to address questions of justice and healing for survivors of gendered violence during Guatemala's 36-year internal armed conflict. We discuss how the initial transitional justice measures of documenting gendered war crimes in the context of a genocide were subsequently taken up by the women's movement and how their endeavors to further expose sexual violence have resulted in notable interventions. Interviews with key organizational activists as well as testimonies given by victims of sexual violence during the conflict suggest that transitional justice mechanisms, extended by women's movements' efforts, are creating conditions for the emergence of new practices and spaces that support the fragile cultivation of new subjectivities. Sujetas de cambio (subjects of change) are premised not on victimhood but survivorhood. The emergence of these new subjectivities and new claims, including greater personal security and freedom from everyday violence, must be approached with caution, however, as they are not born automatically out of the deeply emotional struggles that play out around historical memory. Still, their emergence suggests new ways for women to cope not only with the sexual violence of the past but also to work against the normative violence that is part of their present. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
format Article
fullrecord <record><control><sourceid>gale_proqu</sourceid><recordid>TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1124748637</recordid><sourceformat>XML</sourceformat><sourcesystem>PC</sourcesystem><galeid>A330678463</galeid><sourcerecordid>A330678463</sourcerecordid><originalsourceid>FETCH-LOGICAL-g304t-1b04669dc377e7e13ddc80c45cf4f67d73ee6decc5657c3c2c01570e0931cf933</originalsourceid><addsrcrecordid>eNqN0F9LwzAQAPAiCs7pdwjzRR8qyZImrW9j6BxOFP_gY8mSS5fRpbNJwY9vhoKb7EHuIZfwu8txB0mPZLRIc4H54VZ-nJx4v8SYCCFYL3kevHTzJajgUWOQWkhXweAaGVhZZ31AFTTrprbBKo-k0_HuNLSgUWi7sEgD1LV1FbIOTToZYCVreZocGVl7OPs5-8nb7c3r-C6dPU6m49EsrShmISVzzDgvtKJCgABCtVY5VixThhkutKAAXINSGc-EomqoMMkEBlxQokxBaT-5-O67bpuPDnwoV9arOJB00HS-JGTIBMs5FZGe_6HLpmtdnK4kmJFhhgXGv6qSNZTWmSa0Um2aliNKMRc545tv0z0q7gVaWTcOjI3PO_5qj4-h447V3oLLnYJoAnyGSnbel_dP03_b6cP7tv0Ci2ugng</addsrcrecordid><sourcetype>Aggregation Database</sourcetype><iscdi>true</iscdi><recordtype>article</recordtype><pqid>1041250700</pqid></control><display><type>article</type><title>"Subjects of change": feminist geopolitics and gendered truth-telling in Guatemala</title><source>Sociological Abstracts</source><source>EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals</source><creator>Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca ; Oglesby, Elizabeth ; Marston, Sallie</creator><creatorcontrib>Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca ; Oglesby, Elizabeth ; Marston, Sallie</creatorcontrib><description>This paper explores the often-undervalued role of gender in transitional justice mechanisms and the importance of women's struggles and agency in that regard. We focus on the efforts of the women's movement in Guatemala to address questions of justice and healing for survivors of gendered violence during Guatemala's 36-year internal armed conflict. We discuss how the initial transitional justice measures of documenting gendered war crimes in the context of a genocide were subsequently taken up by the women's movement and how their endeavors to further expose sexual violence have resulted in notable interventions. Interviews with key organizational activists as well as testimonies given by victims of sexual violence during the conflict suggest that transitional justice mechanisms, extended by women's movements' efforts, are creating conditions for the emergence of new practices and spaces that support the fragile cultivation of new subjectivities. Sujetas de cambio (subjects of change) are premised not on victimhood but survivorhood. The emergence of these new subjectivities and new claims, including greater personal security and freedom from everyday violence, must be approached with caution, however, as they are not born automatically out of the deeply emotional struggles that play out around historical memory. Still, their emergence suggests new ways for women to cope not only with the sexual violence of the past but also to work against the normative violence that is part of their present. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]</description><identifier>ISSN: 1539-8706</identifier><identifier>EISSN: 1539-8706</identifier><language>eng</language><publisher>Bridgewater: Bridgewater State College</publisher><subject>Activism ; Activists ; Demographic aspects ; Feminism ; Focus ; Gender ; Genocide ; Geopolitics ; Guatemala ; Historical text analysis ; Human rights ; Influence ; Investigations ; Justice ; Latin America ; Litigation ; Memory ; Political aspects ; Post-conflict societies ; Rape ; Transitional justice ; Trials ; Truth ; Truth commissions ; Violence ; Women ; Women and politics ; Women civil rights workers ; Women's issues ; Women's movements ; Women's rights</subject><ispartof>Journal of international women's studies, 2012-09, Vol.13 (4), p.82-99</ispartof><rights>COPYRIGHT 2012 Bridgewater State College</rights><rights>Copyright Bridgewater State College Sep 2012</rights><lds50>peer_reviewed</lds50><oa>free_for_read</oa><woscitedreferencessubscribed>false</woscitedreferencessubscribed></display><links><openurl>$$Topenurl_article</openurl><openurlfulltext>$$Topenurlfull_article</openurlfulltext><thumbnail>$$Tsyndetics_thumb_exl</thumbnail><link.rule.ids>314,780,784,27344,33774</link.rule.ids></links><search><creatorcontrib>Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Oglesby, Elizabeth</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Marston, Sallie</creatorcontrib><title>"Subjects of change": feminist geopolitics and gendered truth-telling in Guatemala</title><title>Journal of international women's studies</title><description>This paper explores the often-undervalued role of gender in transitional justice mechanisms and the importance of women's struggles and agency in that regard. We focus on the efforts of the women's movement in Guatemala to address questions of justice and healing for survivors of gendered violence during Guatemala's 36-year internal armed conflict. We discuss how the initial transitional justice measures of documenting gendered war crimes in the context of a genocide were subsequently taken up by the women's movement and how their endeavors to further expose sexual violence have resulted in notable interventions. Interviews with key organizational activists as well as testimonies given by victims of sexual violence during the conflict suggest that transitional justice mechanisms, extended by women's movements' efforts, are creating conditions for the emergence of new practices and spaces that support the fragile cultivation of new subjectivities. Sujetas de cambio (subjects of change) are premised not on victimhood but survivorhood. The emergence of these new subjectivities and new claims, including greater personal security and freedom from everyday violence, must be approached with caution, however, as they are not born automatically out of the deeply emotional struggles that play out around historical memory. Still, their emergence suggests new ways for women to cope not only with the sexual violence of the past but also to work against the normative violence that is part of their present. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]</description><subject>Activism</subject><subject>Activists</subject><subject>Demographic aspects</subject><subject>Feminism</subject><subject>Focus</subject><subject>Gender</subject><subject>Genocide</subject><subject>Geopolitics</subject><subject>Guatemala</subject><subject>Historical text analysis</subject><subject>Human rights</subject><subject>Influence</subject><subject>Investigations</subject><subject>Justice</subject><subject>Latin America</subject><subject>Litigation</subject><subject>Memory</subject><subject>Political aspects</subject><subject>Post-conflict societies</subject><subject>Rape</subject><subject>Transitional justice</subject><subject>Trials</subject><subject>Truth</subject><subject>Truth commissions</subject><subject>Violence</subject><subject>Women</subject><subject>Women and politics</subject><subject>Women civil rights workers</subject><subject>Women's issues</subject><subject>Women's movements</subject><subject>Women's rights</subject><issn>1539-8706</issn><issn>1539-8706</issn><fulltext>true</fulltext><rsrctype>article</rsrctype><creationdate>2012</creationdate><recordtype>article</recordtype><sourceid>KPI</sourceid><sourceid>ABUWG</sourceid><sourceid>AFKRA</sourceid><sourceid>AIMQZ</sourceid><sourceid>AZQEC</sourceid><sourceid>BENPR</sourceid><sourceid>BHHNA</sourceid><sourceid>CCPQU</sourceid><sourceid>DWQXO</sourceid><sourceid>GNUQQ</sourceid><sourceid>QXPDG</sourceid><recordid>eNqN0F9LwzAQAPAiCs7pdwjzRR8qyZImrW9j6BxOFP_gY8mSS5fRpbNJwY9vhoKb7EHuIZfwu8txB0mPZLRIc4H54VZ-nJx4v8SYCCFYL3kevHTzJajgUWOQWkhXweAaGVhZZ31AFTTrprbBKo-k0_HuNLSgUWi7sEgD1LV1FbIOTToZYCVreZocGVl7OPs5-8nb7c3r-C6dPU6m49EsrShmISVzzDgvtKJCgABCtVY5VixThhkutKAAXINSGc-EomqoMMkEBlxQokxBaT-5-O67bpuPDnwoV9arOJB00HS-JGTIBMs5FZGe_6HLpmtdnK4kmJFhhgXGv6qSNZTWmSa0Um2aliNKMRc545tv0z0q7gVaWTcOjI3PO_5qj4-h447V3oLLnYJoAnyGSnbel_dP03_b6cP7tv0Ci2ugng</recordid><startdate>20120901</startdate><enddate>20120901</enddate><creator>Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca</creator><creator>Oglesby, Elizabeth</creator><creator>Marston, Sallie</creator><general>Bridgewater State College</general><scope>IMW</scope><scope>KPI</scope><scope>0-V</scope><scope>3V.</scope><scope>4T-</scope><scope>4U-</scope><scope>7R6</scope><scope>7U4</scope><scope>7XB</scope><scope>888</scope><scope>88J</scope><scope>8BJ</scope><scope>8FK</scope><scope>ABUWG</scope><scope>AFKRA</scope><scope>AIMQZ</scope><scope>ALSLI</scope><scope>AZQEC</scope><scope>BENPR</scope><scope>BHHNA</scope><scope>CCPQU</scope><scope>DWI</scope><scope>DWQXO</scope><scope>FQK</scope><scope>GNUQQ</scope><scope>JBE</scope><scope>LIQON</scope><scope>M2R</scope><scope>PIMPY</scope><scope>PQEST</scope><scope>PQGEN</scope><scope>PQQKQ</scope><scope>PQUKI</scope><scope>Q9U</scope><scope>QXPDG</scope><scope>WZK</scope></search><sort><creationdate>20120901</creationdate><title>"Subjects of change": feminist geopolitics and gendered truth-telling in Guatemala</title><author>Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca ; Oglesby, Elizabeth ; Marston, Sallie</author></sort><facets><frbrtype>5</frbrtype><frbrgroupid>cdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-g304t-1b04669dc377e7e13ddc80c45cf4f67d73ee6decc5657c3c2c01570e0931cf933</frbrgroupid><rsrctype>articles</rsrctype><prefilter>articles</prefilter><language>eng</language><creationdate>2012</creationdate><topic>Activism</topic><topic>Activists</topic><topic>Demographic aspects</topic><topic>Feminism</topic><topic>Focus</topic><topic>Gender</topic><topic>Genocide</topic><topic>Geopolitics</topic><topic>Guatemala</topic><topic>Historical text analysis</topic><topic>Human rights</topic><topic>Influence</topic><topic>Investigations</topic><topic>Justice</topic><topic>Latin America</topic><topic>Litigation</topic><topic>Memory</topic><topic>Political aspects</topic><topic>Post-conflict societies</topic><topic>Rape</topic><topic>Transitional justice</topic><topic>Trials</topic><topic>Truth</topic><topic>Truth commissions</topic><topic>Violence</topic><topic>Women</topic><topic>Women and politics</topic><topic>Women civil rights workers</topic><topic>Women's issues</topic><topic>Women's movements</topic><topic>Women's rights</topic><toplevel>peer_reviewed</toplevel><toplevel>online_resources</toplevel><creatorcontrib>Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Oglesby, Elizabeth</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Marston, Sallie</creatorcontrib><collection>Gale In Context: World History</collection><collection>Gale In Context: Global Issues</collection><collection>ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection</collection><collection>ProQuest Central (Corporate)</collection><collection>Docstoc</collection><collection>University Readers</collection><collection>GenderWatch</collection><collection>Sociological Abstracts (pre-2017)</collection><collection>ProQuest Central (purchase pre-March 2016)</collection><collection>GenderWatch (Alumni Edition)</collection><collection>Social Science Database (Alumni Edition)</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)</collection><collection>ProQuest Central (Alumni) (purchase pre-March 2016)</collection><collection>ProQuest Central (Alumni Edition)</collection><collection>ProQuest Central UK/Ireland</collection><collection>ProQuest One Literature</collection><collection>Social Science Premium Collection</collection><collection>ProQuest Central Essentials</collection><collection>ProQuest Central</collection><collection>Sociological Abstracts</collection><collection>ProQuest One Community College</collection><collection>Sociological Abstracts</collection><collection>ProQuest Central Korea</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences</collection><collection>ProQuest Central Student</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences</collection><collection>ProQuest One Literature - U.S. Customers Only</collection><collection>Social Science Database</collection><collection>Publicly Available Content Database</collection><collection>ProQuest One Academic Eastern Edition (DO NOT USE)</collection><collection>ProQuest Women's &amp; Gender Studies</collection><collection>ProQuest One Academic</collection><collection>ProQuest One Academic UKI Edition</collection><collection>ProQuest Central Basic</collection><collection>Diversity Collection</collection><collection>Sociological Abstracts (Ovid)</collection><jtitle>Journal of international women's studies</jtitle></facets><delivery><delcategory>Remote Search Resource</delcategory><fulltext>fulltext</fulltext></delivery><addata><au>Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca</au><au>Oglesby, Elizabeth</au><au>Marston, Sallie</au><format>journal</format><genre>article</genre><ristype>JOUR</ristype><atitle>"Subjects of change": feminist geopolitics and gendered truth-telling in Guatemala</atitle><jtitle>Journal of international women's studies</jtitle><date>2012-09-01</date><risdate>2012</risdate><volume>13</volume><issue>4</issue><spage>82</spage><epage>99</epage><pages>82-99</pages><issn>1539-8706</issn><eissn>1539-8706</eissn><abstract>This paper explores the often-undervalued role of gender in transitional justice mechanisms and the importance of women's struggles and agency in that regard. We focus on the efforts of the women's movement in Guatemala to address questions of justice and healing for survivors of gendered violence during Guatemala's 36-year internal armed conflict. We discuss how the initial transitional justice measures of documenting gendered war crimes in the context of a genocide were subsequently taken up by the women's movement and how their endeavors to further expose sexual violence have resulted in notable interventions. Interviews with key organizational activists as well as testimonies given by victims of sexual violence during the conflict suggest that transitional justice mechanisms, extended by women's movements' efforts, are creating conditions for the emergence of new practices and spaces that support the fragile cultivation of new subjectivities. Sujetas de cambio (subjects of change) are premised not on victimhood but survivorhood. The emergence of these new subjectivities and new claims, including greater personal security and freedom from everyday violence, must be approached with caution, however, as they are not born automatically out of the deeply emotional struggles that play out around historical memory. Still, their emergence suggests new ways for women to cope not only with the sexual violence of the past but also to work against the normative violence that is part of their present. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]</abstract><cop>Bridgewater</cop><pub>Bridgewater State College</pub><tpages>18</tpages><oa>free_for_read</oa></addata></record>
fulltext fulltext
identifier ISSN: 1539-8706
ispartof Journal of international women's studies, 2012-09, Vol.13 (4), p.82-99
issn 1539-8706
1539-8706
language eng
recordid cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1124748637
source Sociological Abstracts; EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals
subjects Activism
Activists
Demographic aspects
Feminism
Focus
Gender
Genocide
Geopolitics
Guatemala
Historical text analysis
Human rights
Influence
Investigations
Justice
Latin America
Litigation
Memory
Political aspects
Post-conflict societies
Rape
Transitional justice
Trials
Truth
Truth commissions
Violence
Women
Women and politics
Women civil rights workers
Women's issues
Women's movements
Women's rights
title "Subjects of change": feminist geopolitics and gendered truth-telling in Guatemala
url https://sfx.bib-bvb.de/sfx_tum?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_tim=2024-12-25T19%3A41%3A37IST&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=infofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rfr_id=info:sid/primo.exlibrisgroup.com:primo3-Article-gale_proqu&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=%22Subjects%20of%20change%22:%20feminist%20geopolitics%20and%20gendered%20truth-telling%20in%20Guatemala&rft.jtitle=Journal%20of%20international%20women's%20studies&rft.au=Patterson-Markowitz,%20Rebecca&rft.date=2012-09-01&rft.volume=13&rft.issue=4&rft.spage=82&rft.epage=99&rft.pages=82-99&rft.issn=1539-8706&rft.eissn=1539-8706&rft_id=info:doi/&rft_dat=%3Cgale_proqu%3EA330678463%3C/gale_proqu%3E%3Curl%3E%3C/url%3E&disable_directlink=true&sfx.directlink=off&sfx.report_link=0&rft_id=info:oai/&rft_pqid=1041250700&rft_id=info:pmid/&rft_galeid=A330678463&rfr_iscdi=true