@article{ref1,
title="Narco-frontiers: a spatial framework for drug-fuelled accumulation",
journal="Journal of agrarian change",
year="2019",
author="Ballvé, Teo",
volume="19",
number="2",
pages="211-224",
abstract="Based on historical and ethnographic research conducted in a region of northwest Colombia and drawing on the stories of novelist Gabriel García Márquez, this article develops the analytical concept of &quot;narco-frontiers&quot; to help disentangle the confusing political economy of agrarian spaces affected by the violence of the drug war. As socially produced spaces, narco-frontiers emerge through the convergence of four interlocking processes: uneven development, internal colonialism, political violence, and narco-fuelled dispossession. Although often depicted as &quot;ungovernable&quot; or &quot;stateless&quot; spaces, narco-frontiers are wracked by extra-legal regimes of rule in which the state is simply one actor among others. With the drug trade inducing violent agrarian change all over the world--from Colombia to Afghanistan, Burma to Central America--this article offers a spatial-historical framework for understanding these dramatic transformations.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1471-0358",
doi="10.1111/joac.12300",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joac.12300"
}