From coca to cocoa

Conflicts, violence and hegemonic compromises in the turbulent Peruvian Amazonia settlement process: The case of Tocache

Bibliographic Data

ID4139850
AuthorsDaniel Coq Huelva (0000-0002-1710-4995, Universidad de Sevilla, corresponding author), Angie Higuchi (0000-0002-9603-1471, Department of Business Administration, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú), Ruth Arias-Gutiérrez (Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador), Rafaela Alfalla-Luque (0000-0002-9110-8273, Universidad de Sevilla)
Year2024
Volume56
Issue1
Pages136-154
Publication date2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x231189569
OpenAlexW4385808025
LanguageEN
References cited51

This article analyses the role of conventions, compromises and even violence in the intricate bio-social construction process of cocoa cultivation in the province of Tocache in the Peruvian Amazonia. This article discusses the different phases of the settlement process and its social, institutional and environmental bases. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the dramatic abandonment of coca cultivation and its replacement by alternative crops such as cocoa. Emphasis is placed on the centrality of agents' normative coherence and coordination. For over 50 years, the civic-market compromise has framed agents' discourses and actions, although it has sometimes been ostensibly distorted. This framing effect has also occurred in circumstances with considerable recourse to violence and armed conflict. Thus, this article focuses not only on justification processes but also on what happens 'after justification' and on how violent situations can coexist with discursive constructions with a relevant normative element

Amazon rainforest · Archaeology · Coca · Compromise · Geography · Hegemony · Narrative · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Ecology

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