Narco‐Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23716609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan–Carlos Ruiz (0000-0001-7678-3513, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, corresponding author), Juan Carlos Ruiz |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0212 |
| OpenAlex | W4238035956 |
| ISBN | 9781118568446 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Narco‐culture is a Latin American phenomenon derived from drug traffickers' subculture. It involves a disregard for life, flirting with death, ostentatious displays of money, extravagant desires, and certain musical styles like the Mexican narco ballad or funk from the Brazilian slums. Narco‐cultures legitimize social practices that in turn normalize the actions associated with narco‐trafficking, via diverse objects, products, meanings, and codes. It has grown and is now accepted at a national level throughout Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil. This includes not just the narcos' self‐representations but the complex network of cultural practices and representations, ambiguous and sometimes contradictory, that has become the way in which we understand that world.
Aesthetics · Art · Ballad · Flirting · Latin Americans · Literature · Media studies · Musical · Political science · Popular culture · Sociology · Subculture (biology) · Visual arts · Communication · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Latin American Literature Studies · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |