Fieldwork

Fieldwork

From the Field

Photographs from dissertation fieldwork with Colombian and Kurdish ex-combatants in Colombia, Turkey, Germany, and France.

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Colombia

Colombian ex-combatants and community members seated at wooden tables in an open-air building, listening to a speaker during a teach-in, with green hills in the background.
Teach-In with FARC excombatants on the parallels of their guerrilla insurgency with that of the Kurdish PKK-YPG. Tierra Grata, Colombia (October 2021)
A painted wall mural of a smiling man in sunglasses and a scarf in front of mountains, with a motorbike and a car parked in front and a woman and two small children nearby.
Mural reading #SantrichLibre in the Pondores ETCR – a federally designated transitional rural zone for FARC excombatant reinsertion into civilian life. (May 2021)
A researcher taking notes at a desk while a woman sits across from her during a field interview, in a room with a bookshelf and a pink wall.
Dr. Fernández conducting a field interview with one of the female excombatant leaders of the Gender Task Force (“Mesa de Género”). Tierra Grata ETCR Camp. (August 2021).