Embodied extractivism: how women in Amazonia experience and resist the extractive desires of capitalism in times of war and peace in Colombian Amazonia The persistent cycles of predatory natural resource extraction and several forms of violence have affected women in the Colombian Amazon despite being in a post-conflict period. In the Guaviare River basin, economic activities linked to war, such as coca crops, have started to be replaced by “legal” industries associated in local discourses with times of peace, such as extensive monocrops and cattle ranching. Each of these distinct extractive activities fosters certain gender relations, which notoriously transform women’s lives but in ways that are neither clear nor predictable. My dissertation examines the impacts of transitions between extractive economies, some linked to war, others to peace, on the lives and bodies of mestizo and indigenous women in Guaviare, a recent settler-colonist zone.