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Cleared for investment? : The intersections of transnational capital, gender, and race in the production of sexual violence and internal displacement in Colombia’s armed conflict
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Colombian armed conflict
Gender
race
sexual violence
transnational capital
Gender Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
SDG 5 - Gender Equality
SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Gender
race
sexual violence
transnational capital
Gender Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
SDG 5 - Gender Equality
SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27593
Abstract
Investigating the nexus of transnational capital, gender, and race, I argue that sexual violence and internal displacement tacitly serve the interest of transnational corporations (TNCs). Drawing on extensive ethnographic research in war-torn regions in Colombia, I elucidate how violence is deeply intertwined in the globalization of neoliberal capitalism and operates by exploiting and instrumentalizing constructions of gender and race that are articulated through colonial legacies and further dehumanize the “Other.” The focus on intersectional power relations advances a critical understanding of the political economy of armed conflict. First, it reveals how local and global (economic) actors are entrenched in exacerbating local forms of domination that produce sexual violence and internal displacement through a particular political economy of masculinity and neoliberal forms of expansion and exploitation. Beyond that, both forms of violence are not only the product of colonial, capitalist, and gendered structures and ideas but also serve to re-entrench these power relations between dominant and subaltern groups. I conceptualize this relationship as the “coloniality of violence.” It constitutes a shared space for violent forms of domination and appropriation that facilitates capital accumulation, and it may further foster a relation of structural oppression in “post-conflict” Colombia.
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Journal article
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2020-03-14
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10.1080/14616742.2019.1702473