Governing the excluded : rural livelihoods beyond coca in Colombia's peace laboratory /
An on-the-ground description of Colombia's peace process as lived by the rural populations most affected by it. The Colombian village of Bricęo might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living there rely on small-scale farming, even as a n...
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Chicago
University of Chicago Press,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Coca: Preserving Valued Rural Lifestyles in the Face of Economic Exclusion
- 2 The State Is Coming
- 3 Substitution and Its Discontents: Post-Coca Livelihood Strategies
- 4 Water and Gold: Megaprojects, Peace, and the Struggle for the Future of the Countryside
- 5 When Does a Peace Process Not Bring Peace?
- 6 Politics in the Peace Laboratory
- 7 Paving the Way for the State? The Material and Symbolic Dimensions of State Formation Through Rural Roads
- Conclusion: An Alternative Model?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Reference
- Index