A Feminist Postsocialist Approach to the Intercultural Communication of Rape at the ICTY |
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| Authors: | Jennifer A Zenovich Leda Cooks |
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| Institution: | 1. Jennifer A. Zenovich earned her PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on gender, identity, and performance in the postsocialist former Yugoslavia.jzenovich@comm.umass.edu;3. Dr. Leda Cooks is a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on identity, culture, performance, pedagogy, and power in context ranging from the classroom to community decision making around food and sustainability issues. |
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| Abstract: | This article argues for postsocialism as an added consideration to postcolonial theory in analyzing and enacting intercultural and international relations of/for social justice. We theorize the need for feminist and communication studies of rape and sexual assault that consider how rape occurs in relation to institutions, bodies, and times that offer varying positions and possibilities to different identities, cultures, and groups. Our study of an international rape trial asks how survivors of rape can have their experiences validated in androcentric international judicial systems. Theorizing Yugoslavia through the prism of rape, we center our analysis on women as property. Utilizing concepts of relationality and performativity, we imagine how the temporal, cultural, and geographic positionalities of women’s experiences of rape can critique patriarchy and global capitalism. |
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| Keywords: | Property Performance Nationalism Sexual Violence Transnational Feminisms |
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