Demobilized Women in Colombia: Embodiment, Performativity and Social Reconciliation

Avoine, Priscyll Anctil; Tillman, Rachel

doi:10.1057/9781137516565_14

Cited by 7 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 2 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Previous research confirmed that reproduction was strictly regulated during wartimes (Anctil & Tillman, 2015;Bouvier, 2016). Motherhood was a denied capability, but not completely absent, due to the mobile nature of the guerrilla where most slept in tents, and the intense armed confrontations (Barrios & Richter, 2019;Barrios Sabogal, 2020).…”

Section: Exercise Of Sexual and Reproductive Rightsmentioning

confidence: 81%

Feminization of Female FARC-EP Combatants: From War Battle to Social-Economical Struggle

Lopera-Arbeláez

2022

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Women combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) participated in the Colombian peace process at different stages, at the negotiation table, at the signing of the agreement, and in the implementation of the accords. However, the process of reincorporation into civil society also produces new roles that do not appear in the Peace Agreement. Once they lay down their arms, FARC-EP women want to enjoy all human rights and expand their freedoms. But the societies that receive them have structural flaws in the way they are treated. They are acquiring, adapting, or resisting gender regulations, not widely available in the armed group. Based on qualitative fieldwork, this research aims to expose functionings and real capabilities, in the light of dimensions of reincorporation. Further evaluations of achievements and limitations suggest that female FARC-EP ex-combatants face greater barriers, burdens, and gaps than their male counterparts. These refer to unpaid domestic and care work, and gender-based violence and discrimination.

show abstract

Section: Exercise Of Sexual and Reproductive Rightsmentioning

confidence: 81%

Feminization of Female FARC-EP Combatants: From War Battle to Social-Economical Struggle

Lopera-Arbeláez

2022

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…These include a reductive focus on -and even fetishisation of -sexual violence at the expense of all other issues affecting women (Autesserre, 2010;Eriksson-Baaz and Stern, 2013;Meger, 2016); the depoliticisation, infantilisation and 'feminisation' of victims' categories such as refugees (Dogra, 2011); the grouping of women and children into a single category (Carpenter, 2005); the reification of violence as masculine (e.g. Avoine and Tillman, 2015); and the refusal to acknowledge women's active agency in conflict (Gentry and Sjoberg, 2015).…”

Section: Women Peace and The Reordering Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

The unspoken red-line in Colombia: Gender reordering of women ex-combatants and the transformative peace agenda

Gutiérrez¹,

Murphy²

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Academic perspectives on women in conflict have been consistently moving away from the reductionist narrative of victimhood or deviation from gender norms. Yet, this narrative is still predominant in humanitarian discourses, while it is assumed that women’s participation in peacebuilding derives from their natural proclivities. These narratives, we argue, reinforce the gendered patriarchal post-conflict order as ex-combatant women are pushed into traditional roles through reintegration processes without addressing gendered structural and systemic violence. This article is based on the Colombian case, where a peace agreement in 2016 marked the official end to decades of conflict between FARC-EP rebels and the government. While deep changes were promised, the reality for women ex-combatants has been – despite unprecedented levels of women’s participation – a reordering into traditional roles and a reinforcement of conjugal order rather than a transformative progression towards peacetime emancipation. We argue that, while the government claimed that the economic and political systems were non-negotiable red-lines, there was also another unspoken red-line: that of gender roles. This article argues that addressing the gendered structural roots of conflicts in order to build sustainable peace requires a decisive participation of women, including former rebel combatants whose potential contribution to transformative peacebuilding are often ignored.

show abstract

Nunca Invisibles: Insurgent Memory and Self-representation by Female Ex-combatants in Colombia

Elston¹

2020

Wasafiri

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Demobilized Women in Colombia: Embodiment, Performativity and Social Reconciliation

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Feminization of Female FARC-EP Combatants: From War Battle to Social-Economical Struggle

Feminization of Female FARC-EP Combatants: From War Battle to Social-Economical Struggle

The unspoken red-line in Colombia: Gender reordering of women ex-combatants and the transformative peace agenda

Nunca Invisibles: Insurgent Memory and Self-representation by Female Ex-combatants in Colombia

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About