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Remembering the ‘comfort women’: geographies of displacement, violence and memory in the Asia-Pacific and beyond
Orhon Myadar,Ronald A. Davidson +1 more
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The "comfort women" system of the 1930s and 1940s, in which girls and women were coerced to serve as sex slaves for the Imperial Army of Japan, was one of the most systematic and institutionalized sexual servitude systems as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
The ‘comfort women’ system of the 1930s and 1940s, in which girls and women were coerced to serve as sex slaves for the Imperial Army of Japan, was one of the most systematic and institutionalized ...read more
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Can the Subaltern Speak
TL;DR: In this paper, a research has been done on the essay "Can the Subaltern Speak" by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, which has been explained into much simpler language about what the author conveys for better understanding and further references.
The Comfort Women
TL;DR: The issue of the so-called "comfort women" (a euphemism for the Asian women forced to act as prostitutes for Japanese troops during WWII) was not treated by military tribunals which passed judgement on crimes committed by the Japanese armed forces as mentioned in this paper.
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“Mom, I want to come home”: Geographies of compound displacement, violence and longing
Orhon Myadar,Ronald A. Davidson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the dialectical relationship between place and self, or what Edward Casey calls the "geographical self" to better understand the violence of displacement and longing for one's lost place.
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Migrant Agency and Counter-Hegemonic Efforts Among Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Response to Geopolitical Control and Exclusion
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how migrants who reach EU asylum camps face various forms of spatialised violence that are bolstered by or produced within these geopolitical protracted spaces of waiting, and how these forms of violence are reinforced by or generated by the migrants themselves.
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Collective trauma? Isolating and commoning gender-based violence
TL;DR: In this paper, the tension between individual and collective experiences, responses and framings in gender-based violence (GBV) is considered, and three concepts that aid understanding of GBV are explored.
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Psychiatric Sequelae of Former "Comfort Women," Survivors of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery during World War II.
Jeewon Lee,Young Sook Kwak,Yoon Jung Kim,Eun Ji Kim,E. Jin Park,Yun Mi Shin,Bun Hee Lee,So Hee Lee,Hee-Yeon Jung,In-Seon Lee,Jung Im Hwang,Dong Sik Kim,Soyoung Irene Lee +12 more
TL;DR: The trauma has affected the mental health and social functioning of former “comfort women” throughout their lives, and even to the present day.
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National Bodies: The ‘Comfort Women’ Discourse and its Controversies in South Korea
TL;DR: The authors examines how the nationalist discourse crystallising around the "comfort women" issue in South Korea has eventually rendered individual victims' needs and preferences irrelevant to a larger narrative of an unforgivable offence to national sovereignty.
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Manufacturing Contempt: State-Linked Populism in South Korea
TL;DR: The current crisis in South Korea-Japan relations partly originates from a South Korean state that is neither fully authoritarian nor liberal as mentioned in this paper. In the past, right-wing, authoritarian regimes in Seoul fomented populistnationalist contempt against Japan and North Korea, with biased and censored public discourse, but ignored public sentiments when negotiating with the target states.
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Comfort Women in Human Rights Discourse: Fetishized Testimonies, Small Museums, and the Politics of Thin Description.
TL;DR: In the last two decades, the issue of comfort women as discussed by the authors has become a hot topic in the media and has attracted global attention. Tens of thousands of women and girls were forced into sex slavery for the Japanese army before and during WWII.