Teo Ballvé
Biographic Data
| ID | 238097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teo Ballvé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballvé |
| SIGNATURE | BALLVÉ T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4645-2865 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries
A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role. But not all frontiers are the same, and nor are the 'illicit peasantries' who inhabit the 'narco-frontier'. In this article we explore the complex dialectical relations between frontiers, drug economies, illicit peasantries and p…
The drug-conflict nexus
The Frontier Effect
In The Frontier Effect , Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause of the region's violent history and unruly contemporary condition is the absence of the state. Although he takes this locally oft-repeated claim seriously, he demonstrates that Urabá is more than a case of Hobbesian political disorder. Through his insightful exploration of war, paramilitary organizations, grassroots support and resistance, and drug-relate…
Investigative Ethnography
Based on research in Colombia, this article argues that violent economic situations in specific spaces can be productively studied through a hybrid style of research that combines techniques of investigative journalism with the conceptual and methodological commitments of ethnographic inquiry. “Investigative ethnography,” as this marriage of epistemologies and methods could be called, can help researchers manage the practical problems of access—m…
The 'Colombianisation' of Central America
Observers have increasingly described the drug-related violence and corruption affecting Central America as the region's 'Colombianisation'. This narrative is not just confused and misleading; it is dangerous. The Colombianisation discourse perpetuates ineffective and destructive anti-drug policies. It also obscures the circulations and connections that make the drug trade, the drug war and their associated economies of violence possible. We do, …
Narco‐frontiers
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 dev…
A Century of Violence in a Red City
Territories of Life and Death on a Colombian Frontier
Since the 1980s, the conflation of political violence and the cocaine boom have devastated rural Colombia, fueling the displacement of some 4 million campesinos—mainly by paramilitary groups. Colombia's northwest region surrounding the Gulf of Urabá has been an unruly epicenter for this mass of dispossessed humanity. Established by narcotraffickers and agrarian elites, paramilitary groups simultaneously act as drug-trafficking private militias an…
Grassroots masquerades
Everyday State Formation
Since the 1980s rural Colombia has been torn asunder by the deadly conflation of political violence and the cocaine boom, fueling the displacement of four million campesinos. The northwest frontier region surrounding the Gulf of Urabá has been an unruly epicenter for this mass of dispossessed humanity, mainly displaced by paramilitaries. As an outgrowth of a complex alliance between narcos (drug traffickers) and agrarian elites, paramilitary grou…
Solidarity
Colombia
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeo BallvéTeo Ballvé is a freelance reporter and editor based in Colombia
Pachamama Goes Organic
Mate on the Market
The Declaration of Tiwanaku
A Day in the Life of The Other Campaign
Youth Activism
Haiti
Listen to América
Bolivia de pie
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeo BallvéTeo Ballvé is a NACLA editor and a contributing news editor for the Resource Center of the Americas www.americas.org
Is Venezuela the New Cuba
Bolivia’s Separatist Movement
"Bolivia's Separatist Movement." NACLA Report on the Americas, 38(5), pp. 16–17 Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeo BallvéTeo Balive is NACLA editor and a contributing news editor for the Resource Center of the Americas http://www.americas.org
The Beautiful Game? Race And Class In Brazilian Soccer
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRogério DaflonRogério Daflon is a sports correspondent for 0 Globo, a major daily newspaper of Brazil.Teo BallvéTeo Ballvé is NACLA’s associate editor and a contributing news editor for the Connection to the Americas. Translated from Portuguese by Elisa Betancor Etcheverry and NACLA
News from Latin America
Another Media is Possible
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeo BallvéTeo Ballvé is NACLA's associate editor and a contributing news editor for the Resource Center of the America's Connection to the Americas http://www.americas.org
Everyday State Formation
Since the 1980s rural Colombia has been torn asunder by the deadly conflation of political violence and the cocaine boom, fueling the displacement of four million campesinos. The northwest frontier region surrounding the Gulf of Urabá has been an unruly epicenter for this mass of dispossessed humanity, mainly displaced by paramilitaries. As an outgrowth of a complex alliance between narcos (drug traffickers) and agrarian elites, paramilitary grou…
Grassroots masquerades
Narco‐frontiers
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 dev…
Territories of Life and Death on a Colombian Frontier
Since the 1980s, the conflation of political violence and the cocaine boom have devastated rural Colombia, fueling the displacement of some 4 million campesinos—mainly by paramilitary groups. Colombia's northwest region surrounding the Gulf of Urabá has been an unruly epicenter for this mass of dispossessed humanity. Established by narcotraffickers and agrarian elites, paramilitary groups simultaneously act as drug-trafficking private militias an…
Investigative Ethnography
Based on research in Colombia, this article argues that violent economic situations in specific spaces can be productively studied through a hybrid style of research that combines techniques of investigative journalism with the conceptual and methodological commitments of ethnographic inquiry. “Investigative ethnography,” as this marriage of epistemologies and methods could be called, can help researchers manage the practical problems of access—m…
Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries
A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role. But not all frontiers are the same, and nor are the 'illicit peasantries' who inhabit the 'narco-frontier'. In this article we explore the complex dialectical relations between frontiers, drug economies, illicit peasantries and p…
The 'Colombianisation' of Central America
Observers have increasingly described the drug-related violence and corruption affecting Central America as the region's 'Colombianisation'. This narrative is not just confused and misleading; it is dangerous. The Colombianisation discourse perpetuates ineffective and destructive anti-drug policies. It also obscures the circulations and connections that make the drug trade, the drug war and their associated economies of violence possible. We do, …
Decline Of The Banana Empire
In Brief
Globalizing Resistance In Cancún
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeo BallvéTeo Ballvé is NACLA’s associate editor and a contributing news editor for the Resource Center of the America’s Connection to the Americashttp://wwwamericas.org
In Brief
In Brief
In Brief
The Beautiful Game? Race And Class In Brazilian Soccer
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRogério DaflonRogério Daflon is a sports correspondent for 0 Globo, a major daily newspaper of Brazil.Teo BallvéTeo Ballvé is NACLA’s associate editor and a contributing news editor for the Connection to the Americas. Translated from Portuguese by Elisa Betancor Etcheverry and NACLA
News from Latin America
Another Media is Possible
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeo BallvéTeo Ballvé is NACLA's associate editor and a contributing news editor for the Resource Center of the America's Connection to the Americas http://www.americas.org
Youth Activism
Haiti
Listen to América
Bolivia de pie
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeo BallvéTeo Ballvé is a NACLA editor and a contributing news editor for the Resource Center of the Americas www.americas.org
Is Venezuela the New Cuba
Bolivia’s Separatist Movement
"Bolivia's Separatist Movement." NACLA Report on the Americas, 38(5), pp. 16–17 Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeo BallvéTeo Balive is NACLA editor and a contributing news editor for the Resource Center of the Americas http://www.americas.org
The Declaration of Tiwanaku
A Day in the Life of The Other Campaign
Pachamama Goes Organic
Mate on the Market
Colombia
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeo BallvéTeo Ballvé is a freelance reporter and editor based in Colombia
Solidarity
Everyday State Formation
Since the 1980s rural Colombia has been torn asunder by the deadly conflation of political violence and the cocaine boom, fueling the displacement of four million campesinos. The northwest frontier region surrounding the Gulf of Urabá has been an unruly epicenter for this mass of dispossessed humanity, mainly displaced by paramilitaries. As an outgrowth of a complex alliance between narcos (drug traffickers) and agrarian elites, paramilitary grou…
Territories of Life and Death on a Colombian Frontier
Since the 1980s, the conflation of political violence and the cocaine boom have devastated rural Colombia, fueling the displacement of some 4 million campesinos—mainly by paramilitary groups. Colombia's northwest region surrounding the Gulf of Urabá has been an unruly epicenter for this mass of dispossessed humanity. Established by narcotraffickers and agrarian elites, paramilitary groups simultaneously act as drug-trafficking private militias an…
Grassroots masquerades
A Century of Violence in a Red City
Political science (26 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political economy (6 works)