Transitional Ethnic Female Bodies and Kaleidoscopic Methodologies: Participatory Research, Feminist Geographies and Multi-sited Ethnography

The Colombian conflict is like a kaleidoscope of violence. The mosaic of structural and specific forms of violence – such as forced recruitment, the failed demobilization process, violence against Indigenous women and regional violence – needs a kaleidoscopic methodology, particularly to understand the complexity of violence against ex-combatant women. The central issue discussed in this chapter is the embodied experiences and memories of Indigenous female FARC ex-combatants during their reincorporation process.1 My core argument is that violence exercised against, as well as by, Indigenous ex-combatant women is complex. Here, I describe ...