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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout Latin America and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities.
Trade Review“Through its attention to both the transnational cocaine commodity chain and the locally specific moral economies that have developed along it,
Cocaine presents an innovative and urgent perspective. This highly original and engaging volume makes significant contributions to studies of crime, governance, economics, and Latin American studies.” -- Rivke Jaffe, author of * Concrete Jungles: Urban Pollution and the Politics of Difference in the Caribbean *
“A beautifully curated collection of rich and nuanced work surrounding cocaine, this outstanding book should be read across disciplines by policy makers, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and sensible political scientists.” -- Graham Denyer Willis, author of * The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil *
"That rarest of edited volumes, one that genuinely changes the field, maintains structure and coherence, and never drifts into repetitiveness." -- Molly C. Ball * HAHR *
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Cocaine offers new insights into the impact of narcotics in Latin America. It is an authoritative, interdisciplinary collection of studies geared to policy makers, social scientists, and historians that will undoubtedly strengthen their understanding of this complex subject." -- Jane Rausch * Journal of Global South Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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' Mirror 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
