SSOAR Logo
    • Deutsch
    • English
  • English 
    • Deutsch
    • English
  • Login
SSOAR ▼
  • Home
  • About SSOAR
  • Guidelines
  • Publishing in SSOAR
  • Cooperating with SSOAR
    • Cooperation models
    • Delivery routes and formats
    • Projects
  • Cooperation partners
    • Information about cooperation partners
  • Information
    • Possibilities of taking the Green Road
    • Grant of Licences
    • Download additional information
  • Operational concept
Browse and search Add new document OAI-PMH interface
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Download PDF
Download full text

(572.3Kb)

Citation Suggestion

Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58687-1

Exports for your reference manager

Bibtex export
Endnote export

Display Statistics
Share
  • Share via E-Mail E-Mail
  • Share via Facebook Facebook
  • Share via Bluesky Bluesky
  • Share via Reddit reddit
  • Share via Linkedin LinkedIn
  • Share via XING XING

La violencia sexual como genocidio: memoria de las mujeres mayas sobrevivientes de violación sexual durante el conflicto armado en Guatemala

Sexual violence as genocide: memory of Mayan women who survived sexual violation during the armed conflict in Guatemala
[journal article]

Fulchiron, Amandine

Abstract

Este artículo es producto de la investigación/acción participativa llevada a cabo del 2005 al 2009 en el marco del proceso político y social impulsado por "Actoras de Cambio" junto con 54 mujeres mayas de cuatro grupos étnicos distintos -Q'eqchi', Mam, Chuj, y Kaqchikel- sobrevivientes de violación ... view more

Este artículo es producto de la investigación/acción participativa llevada a cabo del 2005 al 2009 en el marco del proceso político y social impulsado por "Actoras de Cambio" junto con 54 mujeres mayas de cuatro grupos étnicos distintos -Q'eqchi', Mam, Chuj, y Kaqchikel- sobrevivientes de violación sexual durante el conflicto armado interno en Guatemala (1960-1996). En él analizamos el uso sistemático y masivo de la violación sexual contra las mujeres mayas dentro del marco de la política contrainsurgente en Guatemala, nombrándolo y denunciándolo como feminicidio y genocidio; evidenciamos cómo la violación sexual fue utilizada por el Estado para destruir la continuidad biológica, social y cultural del pueblo maya a través del cuerpo de las mujeres. Además, demostramos la centralidad e intencionalidad política de la violación sexual para someter y masacrar a las mujeres. El trabajo se estructuró con base en una epistemología feminista articulada con la de la cosmovisión maya. Ello implicó poner en el centro de la investigación voces y experiencias silenciadas por la visión androcéntrica y racista del mundo. Requirió, además, una voluntad colectiva de desvelar cómo se imbrican y sintetizan los diferentes sistemas de opresión en el cuerpo de mujeres mayas. Esta investigación da cuenta de una experiencia concreta y colectiva de memoria y sanación entre mujeres mayas, mestizas y europeas, que ha posibilitado rehabitar el cuerpo, la vida y la comunidad después de la violación sexual genocida desde un nuevo lugar justo, digno y libre para las mujeres.... view less


This paper is the outcome of a research/participatory action carried out from 2005 to 2009 in the context of the political and social process driven by "Women Agents of Change", along with 54 Mayan women from four different ethnic groups -Q'eqchi', Mam, Chuj, and Kaqchikel-, who survived sexual vi... view more

This paper is the outcome of a research/participatory action carried out from 2005 to 2009 in the context of the political and social process driven by "Women Agents of Change", along with 54 Mayan women from four different ethnic groups -Q'eqchi', Mam, Chuj, and Kaqchikel-, who survived sexual violation during the internal armed conflict in Guatemala (1960-1996). We survey the systematic and widespread use of rape against Mayan women within the framework of the Guatemalan counterinsurgency policy, labeling and denouncing it as feminicide and genocide. We demonstrate how rape was used by the State to annihilate the biological, social and cultural continuity of the Mayan people by way of the female body. In addition, we establish the political intention of using sexual violation to subdue and massacring women. The work was structured according to a feminist epistemology articulated with that of the Mayan worldview. Thus, the voices and experiences that had been silenced by an androcentric and racist stance were placed here as the focal point of the research. In addition, it required a collective will to expose how the different systems of oppression are interweaved and synthesized in the body of racialized women. This research accounts for a concrete and collective experience of memory and healing among Mayan, Mestizo and European women, which has made possible to inhabit again the body, the life, and the community after the genocidal sexual violation from a new dignified, just and free stance.... view less

Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Social Problems

Free Keywords
genocide; sexual violence; Mayan women; feminisms; memory; healing

Document language
Spanish

Publication Year
2016

Page/Pages
p. 391-422

Journal
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 61 (2016) 228

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0185-1918(16)30053-8

ISSN
2448-492X

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0


GESIS LogoDFG LogoOpen Access Logo
Home  |  Legal notices  |  Operational concept  |  Privacy policy
© 2007 - 2025 Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR).
Based on DSpace, Copyright (c) 2002-2022, DuraSpace. All rights reserved.
 

 


GESIS LogoDFG LogoOpen Access Logo
Home  |  Legal notices  |  Operational concept  |  Privacy policy
© 2007 - 2025 Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR).
Based on DSpace, Copyright (c) 2002-2022, DuraSpace. All rights reserved.