The Origins of Cocaine (eBook, ePUB)

Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes
Redaktion: Gootenberg, Paul; Dávalos, Liliana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on concepts from both history and anthropology, The Origins of Cocaine explores how three countries - Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia - with divergent different mid-century political trajectories ended up with parallel outcomes in illicit frontier economies and cocalero cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429951732
• Artikelnr.: 56831999

Autorenporträt

Paul Gootenberg is SUNY-Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at Stony Brook University, USA, where he is also currently Chair of the History Department. He is a former chair of the Drugs, Security, and Democracy Program (DSD) of the Social Science Research Council and Open Society Foundations. Liliana M. Dávalos is Associate Professor of Conservation Biology at Stony Brook University, USA. She has advised the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime on deforestation since 2007 and is coauthor of the 2016 World Drug Report.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Orphans of Development: The Unanticipated Rise of Illicit
Coca in the Amazon Andes, 1950-1990 2. The Ghosts of Development Past:
Deforestation and Coca in Western Amazonia 3. Ideas of Modernization and
Territorial Transformation in the Rise of Coca: The Case of the Upper
Huallaga Valley, Peru 4. Creating Coca Frontiers and cocaleros in Chapare:
Bolivia, 1940 to 1990 5. Economic Development Policies in Colombia
(1960s-1990s) and the Turn to Coca in the Andes Amazon 6. The Making of a
Coca Frontier: The Case of Ariari, Colombia 7. Epilogue: Will Governments
Confront Coca Cultivation, or its Causes?