Resources and rape: The DRC’s (toxic) discursive complex
On the emergence and political work of the rape-resources narrative in the eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
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Charlotte Mertens
Dr Charlotte Mertens's work, drawing on ethnographic and archival research, focuses on the politics and ethics of knowledge and representation of sexual violence (in conflict settings and elsewhere), colonialism and decolonisation. She examines histories of sexual violence in the Congo Free State (1885-1908), and the Belgian Congo (1908-1960) and the linkages between sexualised violence, the state and settler colonialism.