Violence is an essentially contested concept. Despite the fact that cooperation and communion with other sentient beings is at the heart of what it means to be human, in every period of history and in every culture,
the fleshly vulnerability of other sentient beings can provoke aggression. Frequently, it includes a sexual component.
This chapter interrogates the two components necessary for any historical understanding of sexual violence: that is, what is meant by ‘sexual' and ‘violence'? How have those concepts changed? What ideological, political and economic forces have produced ‘the sexual' and ‘the violent' at any period of time and for any particular group?
Both the ‘sexual' and the ‘violent' parts of ‘sexual violence' are constituted through formative, discursive configurations.
Practices become sexually violent through classification and regulation generated by a vast array of agents. Crucially, these agents include victims as well as perpetrators, witnesses and bystanders, and national as well as international authorities. Just as there is nothing natural or permanent about the body and its sexualisation, conceptions of aggression are also fluid. Sometimes violence is seen as requiring brute force; other times, subtle intimidation will suffice. In all instances, agency is important. The sexed body is active and resistant in processes of subjection and subjugation.[196]
More on the topic Violence is an essentially contested concept. Despite the fact that cooperation and communion with other sentient beings is at the heart of what it means to be human, in every period of history and in every culture,:
- American religious history began some 30,000 to 50,000 years ago when, according to archaeologists, the first human beings set foot on the North American continent.
- History is replete with conquest, violence, defeat of ambitious rivals or vulnerable groups, but a fundamental question is what came next—whether and by what means diverse people were incorporated into a large
- Chapter XX Violence in Madura: The Interplay of Resource, Culture, and History
- The rights of God and human beings
- Eruptions of collective popular violence punctuated the entire earlymodern period of European history and assumed three chief forms.
- The default posture of human beings is fear.
- Human Beings as Both Ecologically and Socially Embedded
- THE WORLD OF HUMAN BEINGS
- As the archaeological record shows, mass violence with lethal intent has been a part of human history for at least several thousand years.
- Although Vietnamese have been fighting among themselvessince even before recorded history, the early modern period saw arguably the most significant levels of violence until the second half of the twentieth century.
- What Made Humans Really Human? Cooperation and “Collective” Action at the Dawn of Humanity
-
Conflictology -
Ecology -
Economy -
Finance -
History -
Law -
Medicine -
Philosophy -
Religious studies -