Description
The main objective of this project is to understand the political subjectivity of women who were formerly part of a movement that used militancy as their main strategy of political negotiation. The project started with the research problem how do women transform their political subjectivity when their movement was militarily defeated by the government. The study looked at how the discursive formation of “terrorist” label impact former female militants when they attempt to build their political agency in a post-war context. It further probed the everyday practices of discursive, embodied and active resistance against the state power, suppression and coloniality exercised by former militants in the absence of the movement. The study explored how women transform their subjectivity and re-politicize themselves in a hostile political environment, particularly against state militarization and disciplining.
"terrorist" label, militarisation, political subjectivity, resistance
