Hoineilhing Sitlhou

Drawing on the ‘Continuum’ and the ‘Spectacular’: A Study of Conflict-related Sexual Violence in Manipur

In this article, I use the concepts of ‘continuum’ and ‘spectacular’ to represent two distinct ways of understanding gender violence in Manipur. While ‘spectacular’ acts of violence are the subject of mainstream discourses, I propose a framework to understand conflict-induced sexual violence alongside persistent struct...