Drug War Zone
Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19902849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard Campbell (0000-0003-3594-8494, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Drug War Zone (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7560/721265 |
| OpenAlex | W356353395 |
| Open Library | OL34825424M |
| ISBN | 9780292799097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 75 |
Thousands of people die in drug-related violence every year in Mexico. Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, adjacent to El Paso, Texas, has become the most violent city in the Mexican drug war. Much of the cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine consumed in the United States is imported across the Mexican border, making El Paso/Juárez one of the major drug-trafficking venues in the world. In this anthropological study of drug trafficking and anti-drug law enforcement efforts on the U.S.-Mexico border, Howard Campbell uses an ethnographic perspective to chronicle the recent Mexican drug war, focusing especially on people and events in the El Paso/Juárez area. It is the first social science study of the violent drug war that is tearing Mexico apart. Based on deep access to the drug-smuggling world, this study presents the drug war through the eyes and lives of direct participants. Half of the book consists of oral histories from drug traffickers, and the other half from law enforcement officials. There is much journalistic coverage of the drug war, but very seldom are the lived experiences of traffickers and "narcs" presented in such vivid detail. In addition to providing an up-close, personal view of the drug-trafficking world, Campbell explains and analyzes the functioning of drug cartels, the corruption that facilitates drug trafficking, the strategies of smugglers and anti-narcotics officials, and the perilous culture of drug trafficking that Campbell refers to as the "Drug War Zone
Adventure · Art history · Criminology · Drug · Drug trafficking · Heroin · Law enforcement · Patrolling · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Medicine · Pharmacology · Drug control · Drug traffic · Mexico · Social conditions · Texas
La Muerte del Coyote
A quién le piden los narcos
Missing in Mexico
The Cultural Effects of the Narcoeconomy in Rural Mexico
The Mexican Drug War and the Consequent Population Exodus
Getting out of the Game
Drug trafficking in the Tarahumara region, northern Mexico
Hope Amidst Horror
Violent Narco-Cartels or US Hegemony? The political economy of the ‘war on drugs’ in Mexico
W Tepito masz dwie opcje
Narrative Flight
The anthropology of global flows
Estimating the impact of Mexican drug cartels and drug-related homicides on crime and perceptions of safety
Hasta la Madre!”
Internet Memes and Representation of Contemporary Puerto Rican Cities
Poesía mexicana de circunstancia contra la violencia extrema producida desde el narcotráfico
The organisational structure of transnational narcotics trafficking groups in Southeast Asia
Violence, Governance, and Economic Development at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Transnational Behavior in Comparative Perspective
You and What Army? Violence, The State, and Mexico's War on Drugs
Illicit Economies and State(less) Geographies
Narco‐spectrality
Drug markets, violence, and the need to incorporate the role of race
Youth subcultures, normalisation and drug prohibition
The vanishing independent
La Chota y Los Mafiosos
Visualizing Narcocultura
The U.S.‐Mexico border as a model for social‐cultural theory
Transnational Homelessness
The Testimonio of Eva
A Tale of Two Mexican Border Cities
The Golden Age of Charrismo
The End of Revolutionary Anthropology
Borders of Wealth and Poverty
The browning of Black politics
The Cartel Mystique
Crime wars
A qualitative exploratory study on gender identity and the health risks and barriers to care for transgender women living in a U.S.–Mexico border city
Nursing Ethics and the 21st-Century Armed Conflict
Land and Law in Marijuana Country
On Narco‐coyotaje
Our biographies are the same’
Narco-Propaganda in the Mexican “Drug War
Congressional ‘drug warriors’ and U.S. policy towards Colombia
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities
Feminicides in Peru and Colombia
Using the Internet to Recruit Respondents for Offline Interviews in Criminological Studies
Understanding Mexico’s Drug Violence
Beyond money, power, and masculinity
Finding the Sweet Spot
Functional Assessment of Drug Trafficking Terms
The conceptual puzzle of violent non-state actors in Latin America
Hollywood and the hourglass war
Feminicidio, Narcoviolence, and Gentrification in Ciudad Juárez
From Paso del Norte to the Borderplex
Disrupting 21st-Century In/Security
We Were All Involved
Coyotaje and Drugs
Is Narco-Violence inMexico Terrorism
Mexico, the failed state debate, and the Mérida fix
The Narcomedia
Bare Life in Ciudad Juárez
Imagined Narcoscapes
Anthropology of Policy
"Consuming unregulated "diet weed
The Narco Uncanny
Drugs Around the Corner
Cocaine's Long March North, 1900-2010
Toward a New Drug History of Latin America
States of violence
The Gender of the War on Drugs
The Persistence of White Supremacy
Escaping identity
Experiences of Engagement and Detachment when Counting the Dead for Menos Días Aquí, a Civilian-Led Count of the Dead of Mexico's Drugs War
Indigenous Autonomy, Delinquent States, and the Limits of Resistance
| Unique citing works | 75 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |