The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology

This article focuses on the performative recognition offered to victims through political apologies for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). It engages with understandings of apology as an act acknowledgment and moral visibility that has capacity further include marginalized accounts or injustice within exclusive national histories/memberships. I introduce feminist ambivalent alongside a differential politics “grievability” in order suggest must always recognize make visible particular subject positions; however, they simultaneously obscure others. problematize gendered gendering effects this process relation two cases CRSV: Japanese imperial “comfort women” US Abu Ghraib torture scandal during Global War Terror (GWoT).