Cocaine : From Coca Fields to the Streets /

The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout the Americas and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities. Based on in-depth interviews and archival research, these essays examine how government agents, acting both...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Arias, Enrique Desmond (Editor), Grisaffi, Thomas (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [sine loco] : Duke University Press, 2021.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: THE MORAL ECONOMY OF THE COCAINE TRADE
  • 01 THE WHITE FACTORY Coca , Cocaine, and Informal Governance in the Chapare, Bolivia
  • 02 TRACING COCAINE SUPPLY CHAINS FROM WITHIN Illicit Flows, Armed Conflict, and the Moral Economy of Andean Borderlands
  • 03 DRUG CROPS, TWISTED MOTORCYCLES, AND CULTURAL LOSS IN INDIGENOUS COLOMBIA
  • 04 FROM CORUMBÁ TO RIO An Ethnography of Trafficking
  • 05 BORDER, GHETTO PRISON cocaine and social orders in Guatemala
  • 06 DRUG CARTELS, FROM POLITICAL TO CRIMINAL INTERMEDIATION the caballeros templarios' mirror sovereignty in Michoacán, Mexico
  • 07 OF DRUGS, TORTILLAS AND REAL ESTATE on the tangible and intangible benefits of drug dealing in Nicaragua
  • 08 "A VERY WELL-ESTABLISHED CULTURE cocaine market self-regulation as alternative governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • 09 VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE "CRACKLANDS" IN BRAZIL moral drug commerce and the production of space in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990-2017)
  • 10 THE VIOLENCE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THE SEGREGATED US INNER-CITY NARCOTICS MARKETS OF THE PUERTO RICAN COLONIAL DIASPORA
  • 11 SHIFTING SOUTH Cocaine's Historical Present and the Changing Politics of Drug War, 1975-2015
  • CONCLUSION RESPONDING TO COCAINE'S MORAL ECONOMIES
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX