Diana Rodríguez Gómez - Schooling in Illegal Economies

Part of the Network for International and Comparative Education Speaker Series
Date: 9/12/23
Speaker: Diana Rodríguez Gómez
Moderator: Mary Mendenhall
The war on drugs has waged a war on coca for over twenty years. This war against coca growers assumes that coca eradication enhances the protection of children and youth. In this presentation, Rodríguez-Gómez focuses on how war remakes state institutions, including schools, and shows that educational access and retention are imperiled without coca cultivation.
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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