Drawing on the author’s archival research in Germany and the US, empirical data about US-allied troop sexual violence during post-World War II occupied Germany suggests a complex interplay between gender, security, silence production, and state identity. Through a feminist security studies lens, this article theorizes about an unexplored, obscured form of de-securitization: the unmaking of a security issue or referent object as active silence. De-securitization as silence provides a unique insight into silence production, gender’s normativity, and security. To move beyond de-securitization’s presumed politicization, the argument identifies specific hypervisibilities and new state-self, dominant memory regimes as acts, discursive representations, processes, or incidents of de-securitization – producing and reproducing active silence and facilitating the making of a newly imagined, ‘good’ German state-self.

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去安全化、性暴力和沉默政治

借鉴作者在德国和美国的档案研究，二战后被占领德国期间美国盟军部队性暴力的实证数据表明，性别、安全、沉默生产和国家认同之间存在复杂的相互作用。通过女权主义安全研究的视角，本文对一种未被探索的、模糊的去安全化形式进行了理论化：将安全问题或所指对象取消为主动沉默。作为沉默的去证券化提供了对沉默产生、性别规范性和安全性的独特见解。为了超越去证券化假定的政治化，该论点将特定的超可见性和新的国家自我、支配性记忆机制确定为行为、话语表征、过程、