Cocaine's Products Part I: From growing to transit

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Popular reports on drug trafficking often focus on localized violence. The cocaine trade, however, is not a series of isolated spaces affected by a product, but, rather, is an interconnected set of experiences, systems, and processes. This panel will bring together a set of scholars to examine the nature of the serial interconnection between sites along cocaine’s global supply chain and the implications of those interconnections for social, political, and economic life along the cocaine supply route. The panel will integrate cutting-edge work on the cocaine trade into a holistic analysis of the movement of cocaine across space and time.

Sub Track

• Violence and (In)security

Session Organizers

• Enrique Desmond Arias, George Mason University

• Thomas M Grisaffi, University College London

Chair

• Thomas M Grisaffi, University College London

Individual Presentations

• Cocaine’s Products - Enrique Desmond Arias, George Mason University; Thomas M Grisaffi, University College London

• Shifting South: Cocaine’s Diverging Histories and Drug Politics in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru - Paul Gootenberg, SUNY/Stony Brook University

• Getting Drugs to Market: an ethnography of trafficking in Brazil - Robert J Gay, Connecticut College

• Legitimate Criminals: How to Build a Drug Empire From Behind Bars - Benjamin Lessing, University of Chicago; Graham A Denyer Willis, University of Cambridge