Governing the Excluded : Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamond, Alex.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia.

Coca industry.

Peace.

Briceño (Antioquia, Colombia)--Economic conditions--21st century.

Briceño (Antioquia, Colombia).

Colombia--Politics and government--21st century.

Colombia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2026.

Summary:

An on-the-ground description of Colombia's peace process as lived by the rural populations most affected by it.The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South.

Contents:

Introduction

Coca : preserving valued rural lifestyles in the face of economic exclusion

The state is coming

Substitution and its discontents : post-coca livelihood strategies

water and gold : megaprojects, peace, and the struggle for the future of the countryside

When does a peace process not bring peace?

Politics in the peace laboratory

Paving the way for the state? : the material and symbolic dimensions of state formation through rural roads

Conclusion : an alternative model?

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ISBN:

0-226-84619-9

9780226846194

OCLC:

1559562011