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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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Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism
TL;DR: In the case of Suresh v. Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal in this case used the 1951 Refugee Convention to undercut the absolute right to be free of torture as recognized in the Torture Convention as discussed by the authors.
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A Feminist Geopolitics
Lorraine Dowler,Joanne Sharp +1 more
TL;DR: Staeheli et al. as discussed by the authors pointed out the continued relative absence of women in the sub-discipline of political geography, particularly noticeable given the changing gender balance of other parts of geography.
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: Cast in stone: monuments, geography and nationalism
TL;DR: In the 19th century, public monuments have been the foci for collective participation in the politics and public life of villages, towns, and cities as mentioned in this paper, and they have acted as important centres of information and information.
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Unraveling the Threads of History: Soviet–Era Monuments and Post–Soviet National Identity in Moscow
Benjamin Forest,Juliet Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the formation of post-Soviet Russian national identity through a study of political struggles over key Soviet-era monuments and memorials in Moscow during the "critical juncture" in Russian history from 1991 through 1999.
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Gender Ironies of Nationalism : Sexing the Nation
TL;DR: The authors provides a unique social science reading on the construction of nation, gender and sexuality and on the interactions among them, concluding that control over access to the benefits of belonging to the nation is invariably gendered; nationalism becomes the language through which sexual control and repression is justified masculine prowess is expressed and exercised.