Eric D U Gutierrez

Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine

Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781032500393
• ISBN-10: 1032500395
• Artikelnr.: 68475242

Autorenporträt

Eric D. U. Gutierrez is a practitioner-scholar with over 25 years of research experience and field-based work with NGOs investigating precarity, disturbance, and indeterminacy in the global south. He received his PhD (cum laude) from Erasmus University Rotterdam's International Institute of Social Studies (EUR-ISS). He was a member of the Executive Management Team of the Drugs and (Dis)Order Research Project led by SOAS-University of London, funded by the UK's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). He is now an independent consultant, a Research Fellow at EUR-ISS and the International Centre for Human Rights and Drugs Policy, and a member of the network of experts of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GITOC). A Philippine national, he lives with his family in Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Puzzles and Stories of Resilience 2. The Strange Bedfellows of the
Illicit Drug Trade 3. Bankers without Suits: The Money Men of Informal and
Illicit Economies 4. Survival and Resilience: The Paradox of Illicit Crops
5. Criminals without Borders: Deconstructing and Deciphering the Life
Stories and Role of Drug Lords in Agrarian Transformation 6. Precarity,
Illicit Markets and the 'Mystery' of Prices 7. Intended and Unintended
Interdependencies