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This course aims to expand and enrich students coordinates for understanding the problem of sexual violence, exploring how sexual violence appears in the weave of everyday life, as foundational to the politics of the nation state, and across the apparatus of the law. We will take a connective and comparative approach in which sexual violence is studied vis-à-vis the feminist postcolonial and transnational critique of gendered belonging to the nation state. In so doing, gender, sexuality, race, and coloniality become analytics that unsettle and complicate the contemporary distinctions of West/East & Global North/South. We will ask questions such as: why are sex and death constitutive to the modern nation state? How is everyday life remade in the shadows of catastrophic violence? How can repair be imagined outside of a medical or juridical vocabulary?