'Everything peasants do is illegal': Colombian coca growers' everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy
'Everything peasants do is illegal': Colombian coca growers' everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy
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“农民所做的一切都是非法的”：哥伦比亚古柯种植者的日常执法经历及其对国家合法性的影响
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10.1080/01436597.2021.1971517
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2021
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Acero C
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几十年来，哥伦比亚政府一直将非法作物与无国籍状态联系起来，并将“更多的国家”，特别是“更多的执法”作为解决毒品生产地区一系列问题的办法。我们利用古柯种植者自己对执法的描述来批评这种说法。他们的叙述--特别是来自哥伦比亚亚马逊边境的普图马约--提到了他们在日常生活中所做的许多事情受到迫害，而不仅仅是那些与古柯经济直接相关的事情。他们的生计不断受到国家部队的威胁，这既是禁毒行动的结果，也是强制实行（植物）卫生和环境规范的结果。这引起了对政府的不满，破坏了政府在这些领土上建立权威的努力。因此，根据古柯种植者的叙述，我们认为，国家在毒品生产地区的弱点是质量问题，而不仅仅是数量问题。提高质量意味着改变立法者和执法者与农村公民的关系。如果哥伦比亚政府继续对农民发动战争，它将很难实现对古柯边境的有效治理。https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1971517
For decades, Colombian governments have imposed a narrative linking illegal crops with statelessness and presenting ‘more state’ and specifically ‘more law enforcement’ as the solution to a swathe of problems in drug-producing regions. We draw on coca growers’ own accounts of law enforcement to critique this narrative. Their accounts – specifically from Putumayo in Colombia’s Amazonian frontier – refer to persecution for many of the things they do in their everyday lives, not just those directly related to the coca economy. Their livelihoods are constantly under threat from state forces as a result of counternarcotics operations but also due to the imposition of (phyto)sanitary and environmental norms. This generates resentment towards the state, undermining its efforts to establish authority in these territories. Thus, building on coca farmers’ accounts, we argue that state weakness in drug-producing areas is a problem of quality and not only quantity. Improving quality means transforming the way lawmakers and enforcers relate to rural citizens. If the Colombian state continues to wage war against the peasantry, it will hardly achieve effective governance of the coca frontier.Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1971517 .