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What the book ‘Mushrooms at the end of the world’ can teach us about investigating life and policymaking in drug-affected borderlands

Posted byEric Gutierrez6th May 20216th May 2021Posted inBlog

How anthropologist Anna Tsing, deploy mushrooms as a metaphor for how life may regrow in capitalist ruins. Is this the approach we need to investigate the entanglement of illicit drug economies in conflict-affected borderlands, asks Eric Gutierrez?

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Taking a political slogan seriously – reflections on a Policy Lab

Posted byEric Gutierrez3rd May 20213rd May 2021Posted inBlog

Can a Policy Lab help us to further the debate on what constitutes good public policy decision-making?

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Criminal entrepreneurs as pioneers, intermediaries, and arbitrageurs in borderland economies

Posted byEric Gutierrez12th April 202116th December 2021Posted inJournal Articles, Publications

This paper assesses the life stories of drug lords, the Castaño brothers of Colombia and Roberto Suárez Gomez of Bolivia.

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Illegality, violence and fragility: do they breed each other?

Posted byEric Gutierrez2nd March 20202nd March 2020Posted inBlog

This common assumption doesn’t always hold true. Eric Gutierrez looks to the real problems: inequality, marginalisation and exclusion.

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The paradox of illicit economies: survival, resilience, and the limits of development and drug policy orthodoxy

Posted byEric Gutierrez4th February 202014th February 2020Posted inJournal Articles, Publications

This paper maps out an approach to examine the resilience that has emerged amidst violence and uncertainty in illicit-crop-producing territories.

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A curious case of unusual economic transformation

Posted byEric Gutierrez22nd July 20199th September 2019Posted inBlog, Myanmar

Explaining and challenging dominant narratives around illicit crops and development, using the curious case of Myanmar.

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