Born of War in Colombia: Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)

Born of War in Colombia: Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
by: Tatiana Sanchez Parra (Author)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Date: 12 April 2024
Language: English
Print Length: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1978832478
ISBN-13: 9781978832473
Book Description
Born of War in Colombia addresses why people born of conflict-related sexual violence remain unseen within transitional justice agendas. In Colombia, there are generations of children born of conflict-related sexual violence across the country. Whispers of their presence have traveled outside their communities. They also exist within the country’s domestic reparations program, which entitles them to reparations. Drawing on an immersive feminist ethnography with a community that endured a paramilitary confinement, the book reveals how a past-oriented and harm-centered model of transitional justice has converged with a restricted notion of gendered victimhood and the patriarchal politics of reproduction to render the bodies and experiences of people born of conflict-related sexual violence unintelligible to those seeking to understand and address the consequences of war in Colombia.