Territorio Cuerpo-tierra and Colombian Women’s Organised Struggles

Abstract

This chapter presents Colombian rural women’s subversive voices through dialogues with leaders of seventeen social movements and organisations across the country. These testimonies are foregrounded in the context of an important historical moment in the nation’s history—the government’s signature and implementation of the peace agreement with the FARC-EP in 2016. I also relate Cabnal’s territorio cuerpo-tierra with the testimonies of women leaders of rural social movements and other organisations. These testimonies condemn violences that are epistemic, systemic, militarised and transcending into all ambits of life. They denounce how the coloniality of power operates in place, and in the territories. At the same time, social leaders propose alternatives for a better life enacting food sovereignty and constructing feminisms from below. The chapter ends with the narration of women’s anxieties, tensions and hopes in the lead up to the post-accord period in Colombia in 2016.