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Hoeij, Laura van (2023)

‘Victim or Survivor: Narratives of Trauma’: A Critical Discourse Analysis on NGO approaches to conflict-related sexual violence in the former Yugoslavia

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

Trauma is in a large sense socially constructed, shaped by what is said, and maybe even more so by what is not said. This thesis attempts to investigate the role of NGOs in the process of trauma and the construction of trauma identities. Do women who have been subjected to sexual violence during the Yugoslavian Wars associate more with the narrative of victimhood, or with the narrative of survivorship? Through a critical discourse analysis of the websites of three Yugoslavian NGOs, several discourses will be distinguished and explained.

Trauma, Survivorship, Victimhood, NGOs, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Gender

Author

Hoeij, Laura van

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Global Conflict in the Modern Era

Supervisors

Rodríguez Iddáraga, N.

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en