De-centering dichotomies in wartime labor: trajectories of gender, coercion, and agency in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (1964-2016)

IF 0.7 4区管理学 Q1 HISTORY

Labor History Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI:10.1080/0023656X.2023.2187765

Alexis Henshaw

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ABSTRACT Labor history and international relations (IR) each offer insights regarding the extent to which women contribute to non-state armed groups and the value of their labor. Yet questions remain about how agency in joining armed movements – and, conversely, the forced participation of women – are operationalized and even fetishized by observers. Positivist empirical work in IR has operationalized agency and coercion as a dichotomy in gendered wartime labor, implying that where women’s labor is coerced it may have a lesser impact on the conduct of conflict or conflict outcomes. This paper challenges the existence of an agency-coercion binary, drawing on the case of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Analyzing archival sources in a manner informed by both feminist international relations and labor history scholarship, I show the complex interplay of agency and coercion in women’s lived experience within a non-state armed group. I further reflect on how a temporal understanding of labor relations, examining coercion and choice at the moments of entry, work, and exit, contributes to a more complete understanding of the gender dynamics of wartime labor.

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战时劳动中去中心化的二分法：哥伦比亚革命武装部队的性别、胁迫和代理轨迹（1964-2016）

劳工史和国际关系(IR)都提供了关于妇女对非国家武装团体的贡献程度及其劳动价值的见解。然而，问题仍然存在，即参加武装运动的机构-以及反过来，妇女的强迫参与-是如何被观察员运作甚至崇拜的。国际关系中的实证主义实证工作将代理和强制作为战时性别劳动的二分法进行操作，这意味着在强迫妇女劳动的情况下，它可能对冲突的行为或冲突的结果产生较小的影响。本文以哥伦比亚革命武装力量(FARC)为例，对机构-强制二元对立的存在提出了挑战。我以女权主义国际关系和劳工历史学术的方式分析档案资料，展示了非国家武装团体中妇女生活经验中的代理和强迫的复杂相互作用。我进一步思考了对劳动关系的时间理解，考察了进入、工作和退出时的强迫和选择，如何有助于更全面地理解战时劳动的性别动态。

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