(Re)Productive Discourses: Media Coverage of Children Born of War in Colombia

Children born as a result of wartime sexual violence have not gained a place in the stories covered by the Colombian media. Based on an extensive content analysis (using the software MAXQDA 12) of newspaper articles published between 1990 and 2015, ethnographic content analysis, and drawing upon fem...

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Published in:Bulletin of Latin American research 2020-01, Vol.39 (1), p.22-36
Main Authors: SANCHEZ PARRA, TATIANA, LO IACONO, SERGIO
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Children Born of War
Collective representation
Colombia
Content analysis
Critical theory
Discourse analysis
Discourses
Ethnography
Feminism
Media coverage
Media violence
Perpetrators
Sex crimes
Sexual violence
Software
Victims
Violence
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Summary:Children born as a result of wartime sexual violence have not gained a place in the stories covered by the Colombian media. Based on an extensive content analysis (using the software MAXQDA 12) of newspaper articles published between 1990 and 2015, ethnographic content analysis, and drawing upon feminist critical discourse analysis, this paper explores how information about these children is presented as part of storylines that use the explanatory framework of sexual violence as a weapon of war. In those storylines, children emerge not as independent subjects but as part of social representations of female victims of wartime sexual violence and male perpetrators.
ISSN:0261-3050
1470-9856
DOI:10.1111/blar.12976