Coping with Extortion: On Violence, Parasites, and Water Infrastructures in Buenaventura, Colombia

<p>In this paper, I explore the coping mechanisms deployed by shopkeepers in the face of extortion in the port city of Buenaventura, in southwestern Colombia. Relying on six months of fieldwork experience in a hardware shop of Ciudad Blanca, an impoverished neighborhood, I examine the everyday...

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Main Author: Felipe Fernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LSE Press 2022-12-01
Series:Journal of Illicit Economies and Development
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Online Access:https://jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/124