Bikki Tran Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 95900 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bikki Tran Smith |
| NOMBRES | Bikki Tran |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH B T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-9559-3071 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A US Vision of Border Politics in the 1970s
State, crime, and violence in Mexico, 1920-2000
The nature of the relationships among the Mexican state, organized crime and violence is much debated. Many accounts of state formation suggest that states increase their extractive and coercive capabilities in tandem: they monopolize the provision of 'protection' in Charles Tilly's famous analogy. However, when unconsolidated states confront lucrative, illicit markets, state-building takes an unexpected turn. We argue that these states, like pos…
Service Provider Perspectives on the Differences between Place‐Based and Scattered‐Site Permanent Supportive Housing in Los Angeles County after the Onset of the Covid‐19 Pandemic
PB can be advantageous for clients with higher levels of acuity, whereas SS could be more appropriate for clients who are more stable and independent. PB programs are seen to have practical and logistical advantages, but some providers prefer SS services. Clients and providers should be matched to PSH configurations that best match their needs and preferences, and providers should be aware that public health emergencies may impact PB and SS setti…
Mexico's Dirty War
Recent scholarship has found that Mexico's dirty war was rooted in existing, but also limited, violent practices established during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, these limits began to disappear. But it was not until the early 1970s when the state had sufficient capacity to launch counterinsurgency tactics throughout the nation. However, contrary to traditional appreciations of Mexico's dirty war, these tactics were not exclusively used o…
A War to the Death
Mexican soldiers patrol the streets, July 30, 1968. (MARCELLI PERELLÓ / WIKIMEDIA / PUBLIC DOMAIN)In late 1996, Mexican militar y officials seized, disappeared, and tortured Andrés Tzompaxtle Tecpi
Cocaine
A generation ago, anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, and political scientists rushed to Latin America to tell a comforting fable. How did the authoritarian regimes that dominated the continent turn democratic? Scholars busied themselves refining ideas about despotic states and the citizens that joined together to unseat them. Concepts like bureaucratic authoritarianism, cultural hegemony, and new social movement theory dominated the fiel…
The Mexican Revolution's Wake
Over the years, locating the roots of Mexican radicalism has become a bit of a cottage industry. For early commentators like John Womack, the roots of this radicalism (and its demise) were in the sugar plantations of the Morelos lowlands and the Zapatista uprising that sought to distribute them among the peasants. For others, like Alan Knight and Friedrich Katz, they lay in the small villages and mining towns of the Mexican sierras where charisma…
La mafia muere
The article examines the rise in violence in the state of Sinaloa between the 1940s and the 1980s. It analyzes the shifting structure of the drug trade and the changing roles of federal and state authorities, bringing both observations together. By looking at the changing nature of the drug trade and its relationship to state authorities from the 1930s through to the 1970s, the article attempts to understand why Sinaloa experienced such an upsurg…
Marijuana Boom
Before cocaine, there was marijuana. Between 1970 and 1978, the Caribbean coast of Colombia was the center of a massive weed boom, according to this new book by Lina Britto. Marijuana smugglers, or marimberos, employed an array of skiffs, powerboats, crop dusters, and passenger planes to run tons of powerful Santa Marta Gold up through the Caribbean to the United States. The trade changed the region forever, generating a new class of adventurous …
Killing a Cabby
This article looks at civil society in 1950s Mexico. To do so, it examines the popular responses to the murder of a local taxi driver, Juan Cereceres. It argues that both newspapers and civil-society organizations took the murder seriously, interrogated government findings, attempted to discover the real culprits, and sought a degree of justice. In all, the story asks historians to reassess both the extent and the force of civil society under the…
Changes in State Technical Assistance Priorities and Block Grant Funds for Addiction After ACA Implementation
Objectives. To assess states’ provision of technical assistance and allocation of block grants for treatment, prevention, and outreach after the expansion of health insurance coverage for addiction treatment in the United States under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Methods. We used 2 waves of survey data collected from Single State Agencies in 2014 and 2017 as part of the National Drug Abuse Treatment System Survey. Results. The percentage of sta…
The Last Harvest? From the US Fentanyl Boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis
For decades, farmers in the most marginalised regions of Mexico have depended for survival on the illicit cultivation of opium poppy for the US heroin market. In 2017 they could earn up to 20,000 pesos ($950–$1,050 dollars) per kilo of opium, which channelled around 19 billion pesos ($1 billion dollars) into the country’s poorest communities, sustaining regional economies, religious ceremonies, and intra-community relations while stemming out-mig…
US Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950–62
During the 1950s Californian civil society advocates and politicians developed a moral panic over youth narcotic use. One of the key elements of this moral panic was the assertion that most drugs came over the border and that the only solution to this problem was blackmailing Mexico through temporary closure of the border. The idea not only became a tenet of later drug policy, but also, in conjunction with pressure from Mexico’s own moral reforme…
We Are the Face of Oaxaca, Testimony and Social Movements ‐ by Stephen, Lynn
Complex recovery
OBJECTIVE: This report examines mental health recovery in a population neglected in the literature--formerly homeless adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse. The term 'complex recovery' is used to examine the onset and impact of various types of adversity over the life course. METHOD: Burawoy's extended case method was conducted on in-depth interviews with 74 formerly homeless adults living in housing programs in New …
Rebuilding lives and identities
A Picture Is Worth . . . ? Photo Elicitation Interviewing With Formerly Homeless Adults
We report on the use of photo elicitation interviewing (PEI) with 13 participants in a qualitative study of formerly homeless men and women with serious mental illness. Following a respondent-controlled approach, participants were asked to take up to 18 photographs visually portraying positive and negative aspects of their lives and to subsequently narrate the meaning of the photos in a one-on-one interview. Thematic analysis of the photos ( N = …
The Rise and Fall of Narcopopulism
The Rise and Fall of NarcopopulismDrugs, Politics, and Society in Sinaloa, 1930–1980 Benjamin T. Smith Gazing back over nearly 40 years of public service, Sinaloa’s former attorney general, Manuel Lazcano Ochoa, described the influence of the drug industry in the state as pervasive. “Politicians, merchants, businessmen, policemen, peasants, everyone knew who sowed opium.” Up in the mountains, “well-known inhabitants, peasants, and small property …
Life course adversity in the lives of formerly homeless persons with serious mental illness
This qualitative study assessed the frequency and subjective meaning of adverse experiences using case study analyses of interviews with 38 formerly homeless adults with co-occurring serious mental illness (SMI) and substance abuse histories. Adverse life events were inventoried using an adaptation of Lloyd and Turner's (2008) 41-item checklist. Participants averaged 8.8 adverse events, with approximately one-third having experienced incarceratio…
State Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910 - 1952
Between 1920 and 1952 Mexico’s postrevolutionary governments attempted to assert control over the freewheeling regional caudillos who comprised the country’s revolutionary leadership, but they were not wholly successful. Although President Lázaro Cárdenas managed to unseat Governor Saturnino Cedillo from his governorship of San Luis Potosi in 1938, Cedillo was quickly succeeded by Gonzalo Santos. The latter was so dismissive of centralized contro…
The limits of Catholic science and the Mexican Revolution
Pistoleros and Popular Movements
Anticlericalism, Politics, and Freemasonry in Mexico, 1920–1940
On 16 April 1938, the school teacher of the Mixtec village of San Andrés Dinicuiti reported that the Easter week procession had taken place, despite government regulations prohibiting public displays of worship. During the event, the faithful had marched through the streets shouting “Long live religion, death to bad government, death to the state governor, death to the president of the republic.” When they arrived at the local school, they yelled…
Sons of the Sierra, Juárez, Díaz and the People of Ixtlán,Oaxaca, 1855–1920 ‐ by Patrick J. McNamara
Inventing Tradition at Gunpoint
This article examines the links between the creation of a post-revolutionary Mexican culture and the maintenance of traditional forms of cacical control. Taking as a case study Luis Rodríguez, a cacique from the state of Oaxaca, it is argued that he utilised state notions of indigenismo and indigenous cultural production to assert and maintain his position as the strongman of the Mixe ethnic group. However, despite the employment of state discour…
Rebuilding lives and identities
The Last Harvest? From the US Fentanyl Boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis
For decades, farmers in the most marginalised regions of Mexico have depended for survival on the illicit cultivation of opium poppy for the US heroin market. In 2017 they could earn up to 20,000 pesos ($950–$1,050 dollars) per kilo of opium, which channelled around 19 billion pesos ($1 billion dollars) into the country’s poorest communities, sustaining regional economies, religious ceremonies, and intra-community relations while stemming out-mig…
Inventing Tradition at Gunpoint
This article examines the links between the creation of a post-revolutionary Mexican culture and the maintenance of traditional forms of cacical control. Taking as a case study Luis Rodríguez, a cacique from the state of Oaxaca, it is argued that he utilised state notions of indigenismo and indigenous cultural production to assert and maintain his position as the strongman of the Mixe ethnic group. However, despite the employment of state discour…
US Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950–62
During the 1950s Californian civil society advocates and politicians developed a moral panic over youth narcotic use. One of the key elements of this moral panic was the assertion that most drugs came over the border and that the only solution to this problem was blackmailing Mexico through temporary closure of the border. The idea not only became a tenet of later drug policy, but also, in conjunction with pressure from Mexico’s own moral reforme…
State, crime, and violence in Mexico, 1920-2000
The nature of the relationships among the Mexican state, organized crime and violence is much debated. Many accounts of state formation suggest that states increase their extractive and coercive capabilities in tandem: they monopolize the provision of 'protection' in Charles Tilly's famous analogy. However, when unconsolidated states confront lucrative, illicit markets, state-building takes an unexpected turn. We argue that these states, like pos…
Service Provider Perspectives on the Differences between Place‐Based and Scattered‐Site Permanent Supportive Housing in Los Angeles County after the Onset of the Covid‐19 Pandemic
PB can be advantageous for clients with higher levels of acuity, whereas SS could be more appropriate for clients who are more stable and independent. PB programs are seen to have practical and logistical advantages, but some providers prefer SS services. Clients and providers should be matched to PSH configurations that best match their needs and preferences, and providers should be aware that public health emergencies may impact PB and SS setti…
Mexico's Dirty War
Recent scholarship has found that Mexico's dirty war was rooted in existing, but also limited, violent practices established during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, these limits began to disappear. But it was not until the early 1970s when the state had sufficient capacity to launch counterinsurgency tactics throughout the nation. However, contrary to traditional appreciations of Mexico's dirty war, these tactics were not exclusively used o…
Anticlericalism, Politics, and Freemasonry in Mexico, 1920–1940
On 16 April 1938, the school teacher of the Mixtec village of San Andrés Dinicuiti reported that the Easter week procession had taken place, despite government regulations prohibiting public displays of worship. During the event, the faithful had marched through the streets shouting “Long live religion, death to bad government, death to the state governor, death to the president of the republic.” When they arrived at the local school, they yelled…
Anticlericalism and Resistance
This article looks at the response to government anticlericalism in the diocese of Huajuapam de León, Oaxaca. In particular it examines how the dynamic relationship between bishop, priests and parishioners established during the early twentieth century produced a religious culture, which wove itself into the cultural, ethnic, political and economic identities of the indigenous Mixtecs. This religious culture proved key to resistance to post-revol…
Sons of the Sierra, Juárez, Díaz and the People of Ixtlán,Oaxaca, 1855–1920 ‐ by Patrick J. McNamara
Inventing Tradition at Gunpoint
This article examines the links between the creation of a post-revolutionary Mexican culture and the maintenance of traditional forms of cacical control. Taking as a case study Luis Rodríguez, a cacique from the state of Oaxaca, it is argued that he utilised state notions of indigenismo and indigenous cultural production to assert and maintain his position as the strongman of the Mixe ethnic group. However, despite the employment of state discour…
Pistoleros and Popular Movements
Anticlericalism, Politics, and Freemasonry in Mexico, 1920–1940
On 16 April 1938, the school teacher of the Mixtec village of San Andrés Dinicuiti reported that the Easter week procession had taken place, despite government regulations prohibiting public displays of worship. During the event, the faithful had marched through the streets shouting “Long live religion, death to bad government, death to the state governor, death to the president of the republic.” When they arrived at the local school, they yelled…
The limits of Catholic science and the Mexican Revolution
State Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910 - 1952
Between 1920 and 1952 Mexico’s postrevolutionary governments attempted to assert control over the freewheeling regional caudillos who comprised the country’s revolutionary leadership, but they were not wholly successful. Although President Lázaro Cárdenas managed to unseat Governor Saturnino Cedillo from his governorship of San Luis Potosi in 1938, Cedillo was quickly succeeded by Gonzalo Santos. The latter was so dismissive of centralized contro…
Life course adversity in the lives of formerly homeless persons with serious mental illness
This qualitative study assessed the frequency and subjective meaning of adverse experiences using case study analyses of interviews with 38 formerly homeless adults with co-occurring serious mental illness (SMI) and substance abuse histories. Adverse life events were inventoried using an adaptation of Lloyd and Turner's (2008) 41-item checklist. Participants averaged 8.8 adverse events, with approximately one-third having experienced incarceratio…
A Picture Is Worth . . . ? Photo Elicitation Interviewing With Formerly Homeless Adults
We report on the use of photo elicitation interviewing (PEI) with 13 participants in a qualitative study of formerly homeless men and women with serious mental illness. Following a respondent-controlled approach, participants were asked to take up to 18 photographs visually portraying positive and negative aspects of their lives and to subsequently narrate the meaning of the photos in a one-on-one interview. Thematic analysis of the photos ( N = …
The Rise and Fall of Narcopopulism
The Rise and Fall of NarcopopulismDrugs, Politics, and Society in Sinaloa, 1930–1980 Benjamin T. Smith Gazing back over nearly 40 years of public service, Sinaloa’s former attorney general, Manuel Lazcano Ochoa, described the influence of the drug industry in the state as pervasive. “Politicians, merchants, businessmen, policemen, peasants, everyone knew who sowed opium.” Up in the mountains, “well-known inhabitants, peasants, and small property …
Rebuilding lives and identities
We Are the Face of Oaxaca, Testimony and Social Movements ‐ by Stephen, Lynn
Complex recovery
OBJECTIVE: This report examines mental health recovery in a population neglected in the literature--formerly homeless adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse. The term 'complex recovery' is used to examine the onset and impact of various types of adversity over the life course. METHOD: Burawoy's extended case method was conducted on in-depth interviews with 74 formerly homeless adults living in housing programs in New …
US Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950–62
During the 1950s Californian civil society advocates and politicians developed a moral panic over youth narcotic use. One of the key elements of this moral panic was the assertion that most drugs came over the border and that the only solution to this problem was blackmailing Mexico through temporary closure of the border. The idea not only became a tenet of later drug policy, but also, in conjunction with pressure from Mexico’s own moral reforme…
Changes in State Technical Assistance Priorities and Block Grant Funds for Addiction After ACA Implementation
Objectives. To assess states’ provision of technical assistance and allocation of block grants for treatment, prevention, and outreach after the expansion of health insurance coverage for addiction treatment in the United States under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Methods. We used 2 waves of survey data collected from Single State Agencies in 2014 and 2017 as part of the National Drug Abuse Treatment System Survey. Results. The percentage of sta…
The Last Harvest? From the US Fentanyl Boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis
For decades, farmers in the most marginalised regions of Mexico have depended for survival on the illicit cultivation of opium poppy for the US heroin market. In 2017 they could earn up to 20,000 pesos ($950–$1,050 dollars) per kilo of opium, which channelled around 19 billion pesos ($1 billion dollars) into the country’s poorest communities, sustaining regional economies, religious ceremonies, and intra-community relations while stemming out-mig…
Killing a Cabby
This article looks at civil society in 1950s Mexico. To do so, it examines the popular responses to the murder of a local taxi driver, Juan Cereceres. It argues that both newspapers and civil-society organizations took the murder seriously, interrogated government findings, attempted to discover the real culprits, and sought a degree of justice. In all, the story asks historians to reassess both the extent and the force of civil society under the…
La mafia muere
The article examines the rise in violence in the state of Sinaloa between the 1940s and the 1980s. It analyzes the shifting structure of the drug trade and the changing roles of federal and state authorities, bringing both observations together. By looking at the changing nature of the drug trade and its relationship to state authorities from the 1930s through to the 1970s, the article attempts to understand why Sinaloa experienced such an upsurg…
Marijuana Boom
Before cocaine, there was marijuana. Between 1970 and 1978, the Caribbean coast of Colombia was the center of a massive weed boom, according to this new book by Lina Britto. Marijuana smugglers, or marimberos, employed an array of skiffs, powerboats, crop dusters, and passenger planes to run tons of powerful Santa Marta Gold up through the Caribbean to the United States. The trade changed the region forever, generating a new class of adventurous …
The Mexican Revolution's Wake
Over the years, locating the roots of Mexican radicalism has become a bit of a cottage industry. For early commentators like John Womack, the roots of this radicalism (and its demise) were in the sugar plantations of the Morelos lowlands and the Zapatista uprising that sought to distribute them among the peasants. For others, like Alan Knight and Friedrich Katz, they lay in the small villages and mining towns of the Mexican sierras where charisma…
A War to the Death
Mexican soldiers patrol the streets, July 30, 1968. (MARCELLI PERELLÓ / WIKIMEDIA / PUBLIC DOMAIN)In late 1996, Mexican militar y officials seized, disappeared, and tortured Andrés Tzompaxtle Tecpi
Cocaine
A generation ago, anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, and political scientists rushed to Latin America to tell a comforting fable. How did the authoritarian regimes that dominated the continent turn democratic? Scholars busied themselves refining ideas about despotic states and the citizens that joined together to unseat them. Concepts like bureaucratic authoritarianism, cultural hegemony, and new social movement theory dominated the fiel…
Service Provider Perspectives on the Differences between Place‐Based and Scattered‐Site Permanent Supportive Housing in Los Angeles County after the Onset of the Covid‐19 Pandemic
PB can be advantageous for clients with higher levels of acuity, whereas SS could be more appropriate for clients who are more stable and independent. PB programs are seen to have practical and logistical advantages, but some providers prefer SS services. Clients and providers should be matched to PSH configurations that best match their needs and preferences, and providers should be aware that public health emergencies may impact PB and SS setti…
Mexico's Dirty War
Recent scholarship has found that Mexico's dirty war was rooted in existing, but also limited, violent practices established during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, these limits began to disappear. But it was not until the early 1970s when the state had sufficient capacity to launch counterinsurgency tactics throughout the nation. However, contrary to traditional appreciations of Mexico's dirty war, these tactics were not exclusively used o…
A US Vision of Border Politics in the 1970s
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