Post-conflict, Peacebuilding and Gendered Penal Politics in Latin America

Abstract

This panel brings Colombia and Brazil into dialogue to examine how gendered violence is organised, justified, and contested across armed conflict, its aftermath, and struggles over justice. It approaches violence not only as an event but as social order: produced through grammars that regulate sexuality and reproduction, through territorial hierarchies that position centre and periphery unequally, and through institutional responses that alternately criminalise, ignore, or selectively recognise harm. The panel foregrounds women’s agency in contexts of protracted insecurity, tracing how survival and peacebuilding are sustained through social reproductive labour—care as work rather than merely an ethic—and through (infra)political practices that remake community and citizenship from below. It also interrogates the politics of accountability by revisiting tensions often framed as ‘carceral’ versus ‘abolitionist’ feminism, showing how debates over punishment, race, and state violence shape what counts as gender justice. Overall, the panel highlights how women’s struggles against harm simultaneously expose the limits of top-down frameworks and generate situated proposals for inclusive peace and repair.

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