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Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrčela
Rianne Mahon
Juliana Martínez-Franzoni
Shirin M Rai

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Social Politics is a leading feminist journal that publishes original and cutting edge scholarship on gendered politics and policies in a global context. The journal’s mission is to stimulate and reflect interdisciplinary conversations, intersectional analyses and international approaches.

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Revisiting Methods and Approaches in Researching Sexual Violence in Conflict

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Special Issue: Revisiting Methods and Approaches in Researching Sexual Violence in Conflict

The new special issue from Social Politics examines how methodological choices affect what we can know about wartime sexual violence, and how this knowledge might influence policy making.

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Between Fatigue and Silence: The Challenges of Conducting Research on Sexual Violence in Conflict

What do we mean by research fatigue and silence in conflict-related sexual violence research? This article draws upon field research from Liberia, Tanzania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Peru, and discusses the questions over the need and context of interviewing survivors and the associated insistence on disclosure.

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Conflict Minerals and Sexual Violence in Central Africa: Troubling Research

Tracing the methodological decisions and epistemic claims that shape what is knowable about mining-related sexual violence and which erase the significant methodological challenges in researching sexual- and gender-based violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Explore a list of Editor's Choice articles from Social Politics. Each issue, one article is handpicked by the Editor's and made freely available for you to read.

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The Good Life and the Bad

Explore topics including dialects of solidarity and care, dilemmas of global Feminism, and pursuing 'the Good Life' in this new Special Section from Social Politics.

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