Mangling life trajectories: institutionalised calamity and illegal peasants in Colombia.
This article discusses the institutionalisation of calamity – in the form of fumigation and exposure to lethal violence – and its consequences over coca peasants and workers in Colombia. I show how institutionalised calamity indelibly marks their life trajectories, through repeated episodes of 'tota...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 43; no. 11; pp. 2577 - 2597 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2022
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