Spatialising illicit commodity chains: Comparing coffee and cocaine
Spatialising illicit commodity chains: Comparing coffee and cocaine
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非法商品链的空间化:咖啡和可卡因的比较
作者:
Dávila, Anayansi;Magliocca, Nicholas;McSweeney, Kendra;Rueda, Ximena
Among geographers, recent focus on the illicit and illegal has tended to fall into two camps. Economic geographers focus on regimes of illicitness and corresponding production of specific forms of economic space; political ecologists and land change scholars, on the other hand, scrutinised how illicit commodity flows shape land and resource use, especially in the global South. This paper offers an initial integration of these two relatively separate subfields, specifically in terms of their complementary attention to uneven development. We use the concept of “global commodity chains” to explore the ways in which the regulation of agricultural commodities shapes how they are trafficked and embed in space, with particular attention to sites of international transshipment. When a commodity is illegal, spaces of transit take on significant analytical importance. As a heuristic, we present a comparative mapping of two agricultural commodity chains linking Colombia and the USA: coffee and cocaine. Their comparison highlights how “illicitness” fundamentally transforms cocaine’s spatiality, requiring risk evasion that results in characteristically enlarged transit spaces and huge differentials between producer and consumer price. We show how rents circulate in those transit spaces, socially and ecologically embedding in diffuse, fluid networks with severe consequences for people and environments. We conclude with implications for work on illicit commodities and the collateral social and environmental harms they produce.
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影响因子:
6.7
作者:
S. Sesnie;B. Tellman;D. Wrathall;K. McSweeney;Erik Nielsen;Karina Benessaiah;O. Wang;Luis Rey
通讯作者:
Luis Rey
DOI:
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发表时间:
2013
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
X. Rueda;E. Lambin
通讯作者:
E. Lambin
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2016
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
Benjamin Neimark;S. Mahanty;W. Dressler
通讯作者:
W. Dressler
影响因子:
3.5
作者:
G. Tamariz
通讯作者:
G. Tamariz
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2018
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
X. Rueda;A. Paz;Theodora Gibbs;R. Leon;B. Moyano;E. Lambin
通讯作者:
E. Lambin