This article develops a new conceptual framework to understand silence and silencing with regard to conflict-related sexual violence against men. Based on fieldwork data from Bosnia–Herzegovina, it argues that rather than the silence of victims, the problem is that survivor testimonies are coopted and entextualized, and that male vulnerabilities remain inaudible. This process reinforces ignorance about male-directed sexual violence and helps to maintain the dominant view that masculinity and vulnerability are mutually exclusive. To illustrate the point, it examines two spaces where male survivors have told their stories in Bosnia–Herzegovina: the courts and the detainee associations.

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静默还是听不见？波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的男性幸存者故事

本文开发了一个新的概念框架来理解与冲突有关的针对男性的性暴力的沉默和沉默。根据波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的实地调查数据，它认为问题不是受害者的沉默，而是幸存者的证词被吸收和语境化，男性的脆弱性仍然听不见。这一过程强化了对男性主导的性暴力的无知，并有助于维持男性气质和脆弱性相互排斥的主流观点。为了说明这一点，它考察了男性幸存者在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那讲述他们故事的两个空间：法院和被拘留者协会。