Slow violence and corporate greening in the war on drugs in Colombia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4032006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irene Vélez‐torre (0000-0001-8566-6722), Irene Vélez-Torres, Diego Andrés Lugo-Vivas (0000-0002-6113-9212), Diego Lugo-Vivas |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-79 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iiaa159 |
| OpenAlex | W3121074370 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Next to a broader agrarian reform, the Peace Accord signed between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) and the Colombian Government (2016) was designed to support the voluntary substitution of illicit crops in an attempt to fight drug trafficking. In the municipality of Miranda (Northern Cauca), over 1300 peasant families agreed to eradicate their coca crops and stop their work in coca fields as part of the National Comprehensive Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS). Nearly three years later, the programme has shown little progress based on complementary evidence. First, it has only embraced 38% of the families who declared their will to replace illicit crops; and second, it has delayed commitments regarding access to land and financial and technical assistance for alternative projects. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this article brings an insightful and original political ecology perspective to environmental peacebuilding, showing that the promised transformation for marginalized peasant communities has been neglected. We argue that initial solutions for substitution have not only been redirected to benefit green corporate agrarian projects but have also been gradually abandoned by the state, creating different forms of slow environmental violence
Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Coca · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Peasant · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Work (physics) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Ecology · Engineering · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Más allá de la Esperanza
The past and future(s) of environmental peacebuilding
Toxic diplomacy through environmental management
Engaged pedagogic research
In search of a substitution model for coca in Colombia
Conceptualizing resilience within environmental peacebuilding
Medicinal Marijuana, Inc
We fight to the end”
Exploring pregnancy maps to understand toxic reproductive risks. Embodied experiences of toxic contamination in goldmining and coca farming communities in the Bajo Cauca region (Colombia)
Indigenous migrant labourers and land
Frontier-making and Campesino resistance in the Northern Colombian Amazon
We are not Drug Traffickers, We are Colombian Peasants’
The corporate food regime in conflict zones
Fests of Vests”
Necropolitics, peacebuilding and racialized violence
The Colombian Truth Commission's work on reproductive violence
Land, gender and labor in antinarcotic policies
The political economy of illicit drug crops
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |