Lives on the Petroleum Frontier: Sovereign Power and the informal petrol economy in the Colombian border-city of Cúcuta

生活在石油边境：哥伦比亚边境城市库库塔的主权和非正规石油经济

• 批准号: 1935201
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1935201
• 关键词: Lives; Petroleum; Frontier; Sovereign; Power

In the Colombian border city of Cúcuta, a large percentage of the economy is informal; a significant proportion of that is related to the sale of petrol bought cheaply across the border in Venezuela. The Nicolas Maduro-led, Venezuelan government perceives this informal economy as a threat to its Bolivarian revolution and when diplomatic negotiations between the two countries fail, the border is formally closed by Venezuelan forces. This leaves Colombo-Venezuelan families separated and informal-economic enterprises impeded. At the same time the Colombian government either turns a blind eye to informal economies or is impotent to stop them. Cúcuta is heavily affected by the decisions made in the capital cities of Bogota and Caracas. The most obvious physical manifestation being border enforcement, but also seen in the social and economic lives o f Cúcuteños.

在哥伦比亚边境城市库库塔，很大一部分经济是非正式的；其中很大一部分与委内瑞拉跨境廉价购买的汽油有关。尼古拉斯·马杜罗领导的委内瑞拉政府将这种非正式经济视为对其玻利瓦尔革命的威胁，当两国之间的外交谈判失败时，委内瑞拉军队正式关闭边境。这使得科伦坡-委内瑞拉家庭分离，非正规经济企业受阻。与此同时，哥伦比亚政府要么对非正规经济视而不见，要么无力阻止它们。库库塔受到首都波哥大和加拉加斯做出的决定的严重影响。最明显的物质表现是边境执法，但也体现在科瓦特尼奥斯的社会和经济生活中。