Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Moral Economy of the Cocaine Trade / Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi -- 01. The White Factory: Coca, Cocaine, and Informal Governance in the Chapare, Bolivia / Thomas Grisaffi -- 02. Tracing Cocaine Supply Chains from Within: Illicit Flows, Armed Conflict, and the Moral Economy of Andean Borderlands / Annette Idler -- 03. Drug Crops, Twisted Motorcycles, and Cultural Loss in Indigenous Colombia / Autumn Zellers-Leon -- 04. From Corumba to Rio: An Ethnography of Trafficking / Robert Gay -- 05. Border, Ghetto, Prison: Cocaine and Social Orders in Guatemala / Anthony W. Fontes -- 06. Drug Cartels, from Political to Criminal Intermediation: The Caballeros Templarios’ Mirror Sovereignty in Michoacan, Mexico / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison -- 07. Of Drugs, Tortillas, and Real Estate: On the Tangible and Intangible Benefits of Drug Dealing in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- 08. "A Very Well Established Culture": Cocaine Market Self-Regulation as Alternative Governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Lilian Bobea and Cyrus Veeser -- 09. Visibleand Invisible "Cracklands" in Brazil: Moral Drug Commerce and the Production of Space in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990-2017) / Taniele Rui -- 10. The Violence of the American Dream in the Segregated US Inner-CityNarcotics Markets of the Puerto Rican Colonial Diaspora / Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos, and Fernando Montero -- 11. Shifting South: Cocaine’s Historical Present and the Changing Politics of Drug War, 1975-2015 / Paul Gootenberg -- Conclusion. Responding to Cocaine’s Moral Economies / Enrique Desmond Arias -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout Latin America and the illicit economy’s entanglement with local communities..