Cocaine
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Cocaine

From Coca Fields to the Streets

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Cocaine

From Coca Fields to the Streets

About this book

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 within and outside the law, and criminal actors seek to manage the flow of illicit drugs to both maintain order and earn profits. Whether discussing the moral economy of coca cultivation in Bolivia, criminal organizations and drug traffickers in Mexico, or the routes cocaine takes as it travels into and through Guatemala, the contributors demonstrate how entire ways of life are built around cocaine commodification. They consider how the authority of state actors is coupled with the self-regulating practices of drug producers, traffickers, and dealers, complicating notions of governance and of the relationships between economic and moral economies. The collection also outlines a more progressive drug policy that acknowledges the important role drugs play in the lives of those at the urban and rural margins.

Contributors. Enrique Desmond Arias, Lilian Bobea, Philippe Bourgois, Anthony W. Fontes, Robert Gay, Paul Gootenberg, Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, Thomas Grisaffi, Laurie Kain Hart, Annette Idler, George Karandinos, Fernando Montero, Dennis Rodgers, Taniele Rui, Cyrus Veeser, Autumn Zellers-LeĆ³n

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Yes, you can access Cocaine by Enrique Desmond Arias, Thomas Grisaffi, Enrique Desmond Arias,Thomas Grisaffi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Latin American & Caribbean History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction. The Moral Economy of the Cocaine Trade / Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi
  5. 01. The White Factory: Coca, Cocaine, and Informal Governance in the Chapare, Bolivia / Thomas Grisaffi
  6. 02. Tracing Cocaine Supply Chains from Within: Illicit Flows, Armed Conflict, and the Moral Economy of Andean Borderlands / Annette Idler
  7. 03. Drug Crops, Twisted Motorcycles, and Cultural Loss in Indigenous Colombia / Autumn Zellers-LeĆ³n
  8. 04. From CorumbĆ” to Rio: An Ethnography of Trafficking / Robert Gay
  9. 05. Border, Ghetto, Prison: Cocaine and Social Orders in Guatemala / Anthony W. Fontes
  10. 06. Drug Cartels, from Political to Criminal Intermediation: The Caballeros Templariosā€™ Mirror Sovereignty in MichoacĆ”n, Mexico / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison
  11. 07. Of Drugs, Tortillas, and Real Estate: On the Tangible and Intangible Benefits of Drug Dealing in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers
  12. 08. ā€œA Very Well Established Cultureā€: Cocaine Market Self-Regulation as Alternative Governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Lilian Bobea and Cyrus Veeser
  13. 09. Visibleand Invisible ā€œCracklandsā€ in Brazil: Moral Drug Commerce and the Production of Space in SĆ£o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990ā€“2017) / Taniele Rui
  14. 10. The Violence of the American Dream in the Segregated US Inner-CityNarcotics Markets of the Puerto Rican Colonial Diaspora / Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos, and Fernando Montero
  15. 11. Shifting South: Cocaineā€™s Historical Present and the Changing Politics of Drug War, 1975ā€“2015 / Paul Gootenberg
  16. Conclusion. Responding to Cocaineā€™s Moral Economies / Enrique Desmond Arias
  17. Contributors
  18. Index