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Speak-out movements from the margins: an intersectional and spatial analysis of sexual violence in India
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posted on 2023-06-10, 07:13 authored by Shalini Subhash NairShalini Subhash NairThis article details the politics of scale manifest in Dignity March, a grassroots speak-out movement against sexual violence that occurred at the same time as the #MeToo movement in India but was not part of the mainstream discourse. The spatial concept of scales explains the production of different spaces and their mutually constitutive nature. Building on the concept, scales are used here as an analytical framework to explain the intersectional and spatial nature of sexual oppression and resistance. Based on ethnographic research and in-depth interviews of sexual violence survivors from mainly oppressed-caste communities in rural India, this article demonstrates how speak-out movements help build communities of resistance. These forged communities, imbued with an understanding of intersectional, lived experience from the margins, create spaces of radical openness across multiple scales, be it at the level of the body, community, or regional/national. This article explores the many abolitionist practices of transformative justice__ a mode of justice that addresses the systems that produce impunity and marginalisation__ that become possible in spaces of radical openness. It argues for reimagining transnational solidarities in the fight against sexual violence and rooting it in an understanding of resistance movements in the margins of the geo-political South.
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Journal of Gender StudiesISSN
0958-9236Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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2023-05-31First Open Access (FOA) Date
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