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Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5248-5933
AccessType
Open Access Dissertation
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Anthropology
Year Degree Awarded
2022
Month Degree Awarded
May
First Advisor
Thomas Leatherman
Second Advisor
Felicity Aulino
Subject Categories
Gender and Sexuality | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Abstract
During the 2016 peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), reproductive policies in this guerrilla group became a site of contestation in producing new discourses about peace, gender, and nation. This dissertation addresses this controversy and explores the implications of reproductive politics in war and peace among ex-combatant women. The data for this project was collected through archival research and a multi-sited ethnography in Caquetá-Colombia. It discusses the role of contraception in the transformation of the FARC from a grassroots guerrilla movement to a revolutionary army and analyzes the multiple discourses produced about contraception, abortion, and motherhood to advance meanings of the peace agreement. Furthermore, it studies the experiences of motherhood/mothering in the midst of war and in the aftermath of war by analyzing the experiences of women who demobilized before the peace agreement through an individual reintegration program and who demobilized collectively as a result of the agreement. This contrast highlights the different possibilities for reproductive and social justice advanced by programs designed around creating individualized citizens under the premises of meritocracy, responsibility, and entrepreneurship versus those of collective community building.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/28470644
Recommended Citation
Giraldo Gartner, Vanesa, "Beyond Revolutionaries, Victims, and Heroic Mothers. Reproductive Politics in War and Peace in Colombia" (2022). Doctoral Dissertations. 2523.
https://doi.org/10.7275/28470644
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/2523
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