Feminización y subalternización del otro enemigo: construcción y destrucción de corporalidades en contextos de conflicto armado y violencia extrema

Studying extreme violence is a profound analysis of the interstices of the human being as an individual and as part of a collectivity. Cruelty is a terribly human aspect and encloses a large part of our construction as subjects in relation to the other. Thus, it usually has an intimate character, of proximity between the executioner and his victim, especially in the recurrent cases of sexual abuse in armed conflicts. Frequent physical and psychological abuse in various armed conflicts obey a logic where the enemy embodies a hated and/or threatening otherness that must be destroyed. The starting point is then the construction of the executioner in his position of power as an ultra-masculinized figure, and the victim as subjugated, humiliated, feminized. The bodies involved are receptacles, vehicles of transmission and sources of symbols and representations of what is being destroyed, of elements of everyday life that express what the executioner wants to destroy that express what the executioner is trying to say.