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To fight with words instead of guns: Reincorporation, subjection and political agency in the case of women ex-combatants of the Farc-EP

Stalder, Lisa LU (2020) SIMV18 20201
Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender
Abstract
This thesis investigates the social position and political agency of women excombatants of the Farc-EP who laid down their arms after the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Farc-EP. I show how, through the laying down of arms and reincorporation, women ex-combatants come to occupy a specific social position under historical and global power relations and intersecting forms of social inequality. Moreover, I argue that from their subject position, they act as the agents of reincorporation and shape the implementation of the peace agreement and society in general. My research is a case study based on twenty-one qualitative interviews with women ex-combatants of the Farc-EP in two reincorporation zones in Colombia... (More)
This thesis investigates the social position and political agency of women excombatants of the Farc-EP who laid down their arms after the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Farc-EP. I show how, through the laying down of arms and reincorporation, women ex-combatants come to occupy a specific social position under historical and global power relations and intersecting forms of social inequality. Moreover, I argue that from their subject position, they act as the agents of reincorporation and shape the implementation of the peace agreement and society in general. My research is a case study based on twenty-one qualitative interviews with women ex-combatants of the Farc-EP in two reincorporation zones in Colombia and contributes to the literature on women in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes. By situating my analysis in my interviewees’ standpoint, I redirect the gaze from women ex-combatants as the deviant others in need of reintegration to a problematization of the social order in place, and to the ways in which women excombatants challenge this order. I shed light on the workings of political and economic power structures without claiming that women’s experiences within these structures are essentially different from those of male ex-combatants or detached from the myriad struggles of people at the margins of Colombian society. (Less)
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author
Stalder, Lisa LU
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organization
course
SIMV18 20201
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type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
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keywords
Women ex-combatants, reincorporation, political agency, DDR, Farc-EP, Colombia, peace process
language
English
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** Automatic update: Record was moved from International Office (LURS00001), Master of Science in Development Studies (LURS00002), Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender (LURS00003) to Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender (LURS00003) at 2026-02-09 11:34:46
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9017414
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2020-06-22 16:46:07
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  abstract     = {{This thesis investigates the social position and political agency of women excombatants of the Farc-EP who laid down their arms after the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Farc-EP. I show how, through the laying down of arms and reincorporation, women ex-combatants come to occupy a specific social position under historical and global power relations and intersecting forms of social inequality. Moreover, I argue that from their subject position, they act as the agents of reincorporation and shape the implementation of the peace agreement and society in general. My research is a case study based on twenty-one qualitative interviews with women ex-combatants of the Farc-EP in two reincorporation zones in Colombia and contributes to the literature on women in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes. By situating my analysis in my interviewees’ standpoint, I redirect the gaze from women ex-combatants as the deviant others in need of reintegration to a problematization of the social order in place, and to the ways in which women excombatants challenge this order. I shed light on the workings of political and economic power structures without claiming that women’s experiences within these structures are essentially different from those of male ex-combatants or detached from the myriad struggles of people at the margins of Colombian society.}},
  author       = {{Stalder, Lisa}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{To fight with words instead of guns: Reincorporation, subjection and political agency in the case of women ex-combatants of the Farc-EP}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}