Undoing Impunity

Speech After Sexual Violence

By: V. Geetha

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Hardcover | 15 November 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunityâ"perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speechâ"both in courts of justice and outside of them. Those who speak out not only advance a politics of accountability, but also an ethics of recognition, suffering, and hurt.

Undoing Impunity explores the contours of the politics and ethics pertaining to sexual violence in contemporary South Asian communities. Using a historical lens, V. Geetha closely examines explicitly feminist responses from the region and, drawing from them, suggests that sexual violence and the impunity it claims for itself are best understood in relation to cultural attitudes towards sexuality. In all, Undoing Impunity is an important and timely look at the social, psychological, and legal conditions that allow perpetrators to act without fear of responsibility or guilt. The book forms part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada.

Industry Reviews

"Presents an inquiry into sexual violence and
impunity in South Asia as indicative of the
nature of state authority and considers what
thwarts and indicts it."-- "Journal of Economic Literature"

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