04. From Corumbá to Rio: An Ethnography of Trafficking

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. The Moral Economy of the Cocaine Trade
5. Introduction. The Moral Economy of the Cocaine Trade 1
6. 01. The White Factory: Coca, Cocaine, and Informal Governance in the Chapare, Bolivia 41
7. 02. Tracing Cocaine Supply Chains from Within: Illicit Flows, Armed Conflict, and the Moral Economy of Andean Borderlands 69
8. 03. Drug Crops, Twisted Motorcycles, and Cultural Loss in Indigenous Colombia 94
9. 04. From Corumbá to Rio: An Ethnography of Trafficking 117
10. 05. Border, Ghetto, Prison: Cocaine and Social Orders in Guatemala 139
11. 06. Drug Cartels, from Political to Criminal Intermediation: The Caballeros Templarios’ Mirror Sovereignty in Michoacán, Mexico 165
12. 07. Of Drugs, Tortillas, and Real Estate: On the Tangible and Intangible Benefits of Drug Dealing in Nicaragua 190
13. 08. “A Very Well Established Culture”: Cocaine Market Self-Regulation as Alternative Governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico 209
14. 09. Visible and Invisible “Cracklands” in Brazil: Moral Drug Commerce and the Production of Space in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990–2017) 232
15. 10. The Violence of the American Dream in the Segregated US Inner-City Narcotics Markets of the Puerto Rican Colonial Diaspora 254
16. 11. Shifting South: Cocaine’s Historical Present and the Changing Politics of Drug War, 1975–2015 287
17. Conclusion. Responding to Cocaine’s Moral Economies 317
18. Contributors 341
19. Index 347