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-Leon
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