The fight against coca production has hailed the negative effects of coca as the need for its eradication, including the threats to the wellbeing of future generations that it poses. In Schooling in Illegal Economies: A Study of Educational Experiences in Southern Colombia’s Coca Fields, Dr. Diana Rodríguez‐Gómez details how this war effects educational institutions, and how the eradication of coca production poses a threat to school systems.
Diana Rodríguez Gómez is an Assistant Professor in the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work examines state-building and education policy-making processes in areas affected by violence, particularly in Latin America. In her current research project, she draws from qualitative and ethnographic methods to explore the concepts of state formation and fragility in a school located near the Colombia-Venezuela border. Rodríguez-Gómez oversees EPS’s Study Abroad program in Colombia, where students learn how human rights are exercised, negotiated, and contested in Colombia’s educational system.
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