Narcotrafficking, Migration, and Modernity in Rural Mexico

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7905174
AutoresVictoria Malkin (Columbia University, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume28
Fascículo4
Páginas101-128
Data de publicação2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0094582x0102800406
PMID17876942
OpenAlexW2075476422
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas31

Here therefore I try to address this issue to provide a deeper understanding of the cultural and economic processes that are at play. The aim is to complicate the prevailing version of narcotrafficking that so frequently associates it with rural underdevelopment marginalization and peasants. Below I examine the local history and the cultural processes that contribute to the proliferation of a narcotics industry in the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacan. This ethnographic approach highlights the local identities and changing social relations that emerge alongside these structural changes (Appadurai 1996; Pred and Watts 1992). I show that narcotrafficking has risen alongside a long history of capital investment and modernization an argue that it is because of the previous state interventions in this region encouraging agroindustrial production and entrepreneurial behavior that narcotrafficking could emerge so forcefully. I then describe some of the cultural practices of traffickers and their followers to illustrate how they have come to be seen as a group within the local space. (excerpt)

Capital (architecture) · Cultural capital · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Geography · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Production (economics) · Relations of production · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Underdevelopment · Anthropology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy