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This event is part of the Department of Politics and Cultural Studies Research Seminar series
SpeakerDr Allan Gillies
University of Glasgow/GDPO Research Associate
To: 18 Jul 2017, 1 p.m.
Location: Room 208, James Callaghan Building, Park Campus
Seminar hosted by the Global Drug Policy Observatory (GDPO) and the Centre for International Studies, Conflict and Security, (Department of Political and Cultural Studies)
Conventional policy and academic discourses have long held illicit drug economies in the Global South as synergistic with violence and instability. The case of post-transition Bolivia (1982-1993), though, confounds such assumptions. Applying a political economy approach, my research moves beyond mainstream discourses to examine how the Bolivian drug trade became interwoven with informal forms of governance, order and political transition. I argue that state-narco networks – a hangover from Bolivia’s authoritarian era – played an important role in these complex processes. In tracing the evolution of these interactions, the presentation advances a more nuanced theorisation of the relationship between the state and the drug trade in Latin America (and beyond).
All welcome.
Contact: David Bewley-Taylor (Email: d.r.taylor@swansea.ac.uk)
Event created by: julie-anne.whittaker