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Abjected and Silenced Bodies

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Some post-conflict bodies carry historical and political content that cannot be reconciled with peacebuilding. Peacebuilding is a site of struggle where some bodies and narratives are casted out from the core of the community as the bodies that remind the community of its suppressed past are rejected and silenced. This chapter demonstrates how the bodies of women who fraternized with the German soldiers during the Second World War are post-conflict bodies that became cast out from the core of the nation during peacebuilding. The chapter highlights that despite the rejection, post-conflict abject bodies can become parrhesiastes, speak back to power, and retain the right to remind the post-conflict collective self of the residual historical content that bears upon the present.

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Väyrynen, T. (2019). Abjected and Silenced Bodies. In: Corporeal Peacebuilding. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97259-6_5

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