Bosna'da Cinsiyete Dayalı Şiddet: Bir İnceleme Çalışması

Abstract

This review article aims to investigate gender-based violence in Bosnia during and after the war. While the previous literature exclusively focuses on the relationship between gender and nationalism, this article attracts attention to the lacking social psychology and political economy perspectives. By adopting a continuum approach, this study uncovers how different forms of violence interact with each other in the case of Bosnian women from conflict to post-conflict settings. In analyzing the accounts of female war victims from secondary sources, this study points out the overlapping processes of gender-based violence from past to present. It is argued that sexual violence during the war has led to symbolic and material violence toward women in the post-war context. Sexual violence during the war constituted the basis of multiple forms of violence towards women in the post-war period, some of which are sequential traumatization, stigmatization, and domestic violence. The displacement and dispossession processes due to the war triggered a spiral of violence in the lives of women. In experiencing a transition from a war economy to a neoliberal economy, the Bosnian state has not been able to provide social protection to women. The economic vulnerability of women has been aggrandized by their unemployment and undereducation in the last decades.

Authors

İbrahim Kuran

Keywords

Bosnia, gender, violence, social psychology, political economy

Publication Information

Publication Date

June 19, 2023

Submission Date

January 11, 2023

Accepted Date

February 24, 2023

Volume

11

Issue

35

Year

2023

Pages

1064-1077

Language

English

Status

Published

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DOI

10.33692/avrasyad.1232961

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