Anti-natalist violence:forced sterilizations, political violence, and coloniality in Peru

'Anti-Natalist Violence. Forced Sterilizations, Political Violence, and Coloniality in Peru': how can we make sense of forced and coerced sterilization globally? How is the mass sterilization of indigenous and campesina women made possible? And what do forced and coerced sterilizations 'do' politically? This thesis conceptualizes anti-natalist violence as a form of political violence that participates in the production of bodies. This is a form of violence, however, that has often been overlooked and made invisible along a continuum of gendered and colonial violence as it takes the guise of reproductive health under the cover of hospitals, medical professionals, sterilized objects, modernity, and progress. Analyzed in relation to conflict violence and embodied experience it, nevertheless, reveals the processes of sexing, gendering, and racializing through which anti-natalist violence is intimately engaged, shaping who gets to be a modern citizen and who gets marked as 'other'.