Yoana Fernanda Nieto Valdivieso

This article explores the ways in which women victim/survivors of conflict- related sexual violence and other human rights abuses in Colombia are co-facilitating repair and regeneration in their wider social ecologies – including their families, communities, built and natural environments – through their physical and emotional work. I begin by expl...

The article looks at women self-led organisations as embodied infrastructures (Clisby & Holdsworth, 2016) supporting the lives of victim-survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia. Focusing on three elements that form the concept of women as embodied infrastructures namely, i) the roles women play as mentors and role models for other...

Pleasure as an element of revolutionary struggle has been overlooked in scholarly accounts about women’s participation in guerrilla and politico-military organizations. In contexts of ongoing armed confrontation and transition from war to peace, it is also a taboo because it contravenes official accounts that expect narratives of repentance and the...

Colombian women have played different roles in the country almost 60 years of armed confrontation. In this paper I will explore the memory archives assembled by women ex-combatants about their participation in guerrilla armies. I will argue that Women’s memory archives of their militancia, are ‘unusual archives’, they resemble Ann Cvetkovich’s (20...

The book explores the experiences of Colombian female excombatants transition from armed to civil life. The women interviewed joined politico-military organizations in the 1970s and 1980s and laid down their weaponds in the 1990s as part of bilateral peace agreement between different guerrilla organizations and Colombia's goverment. CAPÍTULO 1 DE...