Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles.These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role.But not all frontiers are the same, and nor are the 'illicit peasantries' who inhabit the 'narco-frontier'.In this article we explore the complex dialectical relations between frontiers, drug economies, illicit peasantries and peasant politics.In doing so we develop a new comparative framework, that provides a heuristic for studying the commonalities and differences across narco-frontiers and the mechanisms behind these differences.
Source: The Journal of Peasant Studies
Authors: Jonathan Goodhand, Teo Ballvé, Patrick Meehan
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: UK Research and Innovation
Award: G6979975202
OpenAlex ID: W4387046647