Understanding motherhoods during FARC-EP female ex-combatants’ reincorporation processes: the case of La Guajira

Over the years, motherhood and its complexities have been theorised from many outlooks. This research stands with feminist scholars, writers, and activists that have been working on understanding the complexity of motherhood as an institution with all that it entails. This research paper nourishes the debate by approaching motherhood from the perspectives and experiences of FARC-EP female ex-combatants living in the ETCR Amaury Rodríguez, La Guajira, during their reincorporation process in the framework of peacebuilding in Colom-bia. Through the use of a feminist ethnographic approach, this research relies on their stories as main source of knowledge. Based on these stories, I argue that although some women do not necessarily understand motherhood differently from its universal conception, their ex-periences defy its institution by different practices like making it a choice rather than a goal, and by politicising their experiences, and turning them into experiences of resistance.