Curating consent: sexual violence, moral politics and gendered agency in Sudan

This article seeks to move beyond the impasse between the anthropological tradition (that remains cautious to condemn human rights violations defined by “universal” standards), and the international community (which advocates such “universal” norms). In line with feminist anthropological work in nor...

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Autor principal:	Siri Lamoureaux
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Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Materias:	sexual violence women’s rights sharia gender agency ngo sudan post-colonial Technology (General) T1-995 Social sciences (General) H1-99
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:259ba6fbcab9440d9a71b6d6282d4cb42021-11-17T14:22:00ZCurating consent: sexual violence, moral politics and gendered agency in Sudan2572-986110.1080/25729861.2021.1989859https://doaj.org/article/259ba6fbcab9440d9a71b6d6282d4cb42021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2021.1989859https://doaj.org/toc/2572-9861This article seeks to move beyond the impasse between the anthropological tradition (that remains cautious to condemn human rights violations defined by “universal” standards), and the international community (which advocates such “universal” norms). In line with feminist anthropological work in northeast Africa that has advanced understandings of gendered agency in Islamic and patriarchal cultures, I suggest that a careful analysis of plural local normative structures is necessary to understand any practice of women’s subordination and potential for agency. Two registers of justice are in circulation, in which ideals of feminine agency are made explicit. Women and girls who cannot identify their experience through either register of justice may not seek to report it. This helps account for why neither register of justice is useful to the majority of Sudanese women, but this seemingly impossible situation does not determine their capacity for agency. I draw inspiration from post-colonial feminism and Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches where the “culture” of sexual violence in Sudan is arguably a “translation” of Sudan’s national and transnational moral politics into the micropolitics of power among women and men in an inevitably plural post-colonial setting. Thus agency here is also “doing postcolonial gender.”Siri LamoureauxTaylor & Francis Grouparticlesexual violencewomen’s rightsshariagenderagencyngosudanpost-colonialTechnology (General)T1-995Social sciences (General)H1-99ENTapuya, Vol 0, Iss 0, Pp 1-25 (2021)
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spellingShingle	sexual violence women’s rights sharia gender agency ngo sudan post-colonial Technology (General) T1-995 Social sciences (General) H1-99 Siri Lamoureaux Curating consent: sexual violence, moral politics and gendered agency in Sudan
description	This article seeks to move beyond the impasse between the anthropological tradition (that remains cautious to condemn human rights violations defined by “universal” standards), and the international community (which advocates such “universal” norms). In line with feminist anthropological work in northeast Africa that has advanced understandings of gendered agency in Islamic and patriarchal cultures, I suggest that a careful analysis of plural local normative structures is necessary to understand any practice of women’s subordination and potential for agency. Two registers of justice are in circulation, in which ideals of feminine agency are made explicit. Women and girls who cannot identify their experience through either register of justice may not seek to report it. This helps account for why neither register of justice is useful to the majority of Sudanese women, but this seemingly impossible situation does not determine their capacity for agency. I draw inspiration from post-colonial feminism and Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches where the “culture” of sexual violence in Sudan is arguably a “translation” of Sudan’s national and transnational moral politics into the micropolitics of power among women and men in an inevitably plural post-colonial setting. Thus agency here is also “doing postcolonial gender.”
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title	Curating consent: sexual violence, moral politics and gendered agency in Sudan
title_short	Curating consent: sexual violence, moral politics and gendered agency in Sudan
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Curating consent: sexual violence, moral politics and gendered agency in Sudan

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