Arias / Grisaffi Cocaine

From Coca Fields to the Streets
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2195-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout Latin America and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arias, Enrique Desmond

Grisaffi, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Moral Economy of the Cocaine Trade / Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi 1
1. The White Factory: Coca, Cocaine, and Informal Governance in the Chapare, Bolivia / Thomas Grisaffi 41
2. Tracing Cocaine Supply Chains from Within: Illicit Flows, Armed Conflict, and the Moral Economy of Andean Borderlands / Annette Idler 69
3. Drug Crops, Twisted Motorcycles, and Cultural Loss n Indigenous Colombia / Autumn Zellers-León 94
4. From Corumbá to Rio: An Ethnography of Trafficking / Robert Gay 117
5. Border, Ghetto, Prison: Cocaine and Social Orders in Guatemala / Anthony W. Fontes 139
6. Drug Cartels, From Political to Criminal Intermediation: The Caballeros Templarios' Minor Sovereignty in Michoacán, Mexico / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison 165
7. Of Drugs, Tortillas, and Real Estate: On the Tangible and Intangible Benefits of Drug Dealing in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers 190
8. "A Very Well Established Culture": Cocaine Market Self-Regulation as Alternative Governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Lilian Bobea and Cyrus Veeser 209
9. Visible and Invisible "Cracklands" in Brazil: Moral Drug Commerce and the Production of Space in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990–2017) / Taniele Rui 232
10. The Violence of the American Dream in Segregated US Inner-City Narcotics Markets / Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos and Fernando Montero 254
11. Shifting South: Cocaine's Historical Present and the Changing Politics of Drug War, 1975–2015 / Paul Gootenberg 287
Conclusion. Responding to Cocaine's Moral Economies / Enrique Desmond Arias 317
Contributors 341
Index 347

Über Autor(innen)

Enrique Desmond Arias is Marxe Chair of Western Hemisphere Affairs and Professor, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Thomas Grisaffi is Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Reading and author of Coca Yes, Cocaine No: How Bolivia’s Coca Growers Reshaped Democracy, also published by Duke University Press.