In 2024, we published a Forum on Illicit Drug Crop Economies in the Journal of Peasant Studies consisting of nine articles. The articles address challenges surrounding illicit drug crop cultivation …
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This article in the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs reflects on the challenges and opportunities of collaboration between artists and academics in making the animation ‘Colombia’s Broken Peace’.
This article explores how drug dependency treatment is made to work in efforts to sustain everyday livelihoods.
This Journal of Contemporary Asia article discusses how the illegal drug trade has become integral to systems of brokered rule in northern Shan State, Myanmar.
This Third World Quarterly article discusses how capitalism alters life at the nexus of drug production, trade and consumption in the borderlands of Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar.
This Journal of Political Power article discusses four mechanisms through which criminal involvement politicised paramilitaries.
This Third World Quarterly article discusses the institutionalization of calamity – in the form of fumigation and exposure to lethal violence – and its consequences over coca peasants and workers in Colombia.
This Third World Quarterly article considers the interaction between different governance arrangements and the everyday life of people involved in the drug economy in Nimroz and Nangarhar.
This Journal of Political Power article analyses the effect of the Colombian peace process on the discourse of ‘narco-guerillas’.
This Third World Quarterly article draws on coca farmer accounts to argue that if the state continues to wage war against the peasantry, it will hardly achieve effective governance of the coca frontier.
This Third World Quarterly article explores the lifeworld of drugs, following their journey from the farmers’ field to their arrival at the border with Tajikistan.
This World Development article examines some of the causal mechanisms that underlie the relationship between land tenure and the cultivation of crops used for illicit drug production.
This Journal of Agrarian Change article explores the relationship between the illicit opium economy and processes of agrarian change in south-western Shan state, Myanmar.
This article examines the recent trends in international, in particular multilateral, drug policy and the implications of these changes for shifting alignments and coalitions of actors and stakeholders.
Empirical research on the convergence of the drugs, development and peacebuilding policy fields.
Viewpoint published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. By Veerle Van den Eynden.
Viewpoint published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. By Mark Shaw.
Viewpoint published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. By Ana Arjona.
Viewpoint published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. By Teo Ballvé.
Viewpoint published in the International Journal of Drug Policy By Paul Gootenberg