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Goodhand, Jonathan, Ballvé, Teo and Meehan, Patrick (2024) 'Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 51 (4). pp. 801-825.

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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.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: Illicit peasantries, narco-frontiers, frontier capitalism, illicit drug economies
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Development Studies
ISSN: 03066150
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2258808
SWORD Depositor: JISC Publications Router
Date Deposited: 09 Oct 2023 09:02
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/40474
Funders: Economic and Social Research Council

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