Frontera Combustible: Conceptualising the State Through the Experiences of Petrol Smugglers in the Colombian/Venezuelan Borderlands of Norte de Santander/Táchira
This paper is based on an ongoing ethnographic research project conducted in the borderlands between Colombia and Venezuela, in particular the Colombian city of Cúcuta. There is a thriving smuggling trade between the two countries caused by Venezuela’s economic crisis and the extreme devaluation of...
Main Author: | Charles Beach |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Extreme Anthropology Research Network
2018-09-01
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Series: | Journal of Extreme Anthropology |
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Online Access: | https://journals.uio.no/JEA/article/view/6257 |
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