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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| Language: | English |
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LSE Press
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Illicit Economies and Development |
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| Online Access: | https://jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/124 |