TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Narco-frontiers: a spatial framework for drug-fuelled accumulation
JO  - Journal of agrarian change
A1  - Ballvé, Teo
SP  - 211
EP  - 224
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 "narco-frontiers" 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 "ungovernable" or "stateless" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1471-0358
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joac.12300
ID  - ref1
ER  -