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In Legacies of War Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children
born of wartime rape and the experiences of their mothers and
communities to offer a gendered theory of harm and repair. Drawing
on ethnographic research in postconflict Peru and Colombia, Theidon
considers the multiple environments in which conception, pregnancy,
and childbirth unfold. She reimagines harm by taking into account
the impact of violence on individual people as well as on
more-than-human lives, bodies, and ecologies, showing how wartime
violence reveals the interdependency of all life. She also
critiques policy makers, governments, and humanitarian
organizations for their efforts at postconflict justice, which
frequently take an anthropocentric rights-based approach that is
steeped in liberal legalism. Rethinking the intergenerational reach
of war while questioning what counts as sexual and reproductive
violence, Theidon calls for an explicitly feminist peace-building
and postconflict agenda that includes a full range of sexual and
reproductive rights, including access to safe and affordable
abortions.
In Legacies of War Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children
born of wartime rape and the experiences of their mothers and
communities to offer a gendered theory of harm and repair. Drawing
on ethnographic research in postconflict Peru and Colombia, Theidon
considers the multiple environments in which conception, pregnancy,
and childbirth unfold. She reimagines harm by taking into account
the impact of violence on individual people as well as on
more-than-human lives, bodies, and ecologies, showing how wartime
violence reveals the interdependency of all life. She also
critiques policy makers, governments, and humanitarian
organizations for their efforts at postconflict justice, which
frequently take an anthropocentric rights-based approach that is
steeped in liberal legalism. Rethinking the intergenerational reach
of war while questioning what counts as sexual and reproductive
violence, Theidon calls for an explicitly feminist peace-building
and postconflict agenda that includes a full range of sexual and
reproductive rights, including access to safe and affordable
abortions.
In the aftermath of a civil war, former enemies are left living
side by side--and often the enemy is a son-in-law, a godfather, an
old schoolmate, or the community that lies just across the valley.
Though the internal conflict in Peru at the end of the twentieth
century was incited and organized by insurgent Senderistas, the
violence and destruction were carried out not only by Peruvian
armed forces but also by civilians. In the wake of war, any given
Peruvian community may consist of ex-Senderistas, current
sympathizers, widows, orphans, army veterans--a volatile social
landscape. These survivors, though fully aware of the potential
danger posed by their neighbors, must nonetheless endeavor to live
and labor alongside their intimate enemies.Drawing on years of
research with communities in the highlands of Ayacucho, Kimberly
Theidon explores how Peruvians are rebuilding both individual lives
and collective existence following twenty years of armed conflict.
"Intimate Enemies" recounts the stories and dialogues of Peruvian
peasants and Theidon's own experiences to encompass the broad and
varied range of conciliatory practices: customary law before and
after the war, the practice of "arrepentimiento" (publicly
confessing one's actions and requesting pardon from one's peers), a
differentiation between forgiveness and reconciliation, and the
importance of storytelling to make sense of the past and recreate
moral order. The micropolitics of reconciliation in these
communities present an example of postwar coexistence that deeply
complicates the way we understand transitional justice, moral
sensibilities, and social life in the aftermath of war. Any effort
to understand postconflict reconstruction must be attuned to
devastation as well as to human tenacity for life.
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