What is the state made of? Coca, roads, and the materiality of state formation in the frontier

Currie, Isabel Peñaranda; Otero-Bahamón, Silvia; Uribe, Simón

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105395

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“…Cocaine is a drug that can be consumed in various forms, including liquid, powder, and crack cocaine. The drug stimulates the brain's dopamine system, causing a high in energy and alertness due to the release of high levels of dopamine [3]. Cocaine increases the activity of dopamine in the brain, which controls movement and rewards.…”

Section: Consumption and General Side Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cocaine Induced Cardiac Arrhythmias

Reinfeld

2024

J Cardiol Cardiovasc Res.

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An addictive drug that provides pleasure and reward is more likely to attack various parts of the body and affect health. Dangerous substances are also involved in cocaine processing. Not just the high dosage of cocaine but a lower quantity may also lead to severe health issues, which ultimately cause panic attacks, violent behavior, and tremors. However, long-term use of cocaine may lead to heart attack and is likely to cause sudden death. Cardiac arrhythmia or irregular heartbeat is highly associated with cocaine use. The potential causes of cocaine-associated arrhythmias, including sodium channel blockade, ischemia, and potassium channel blockade, and clinical manifestations that are influenced by acidosis, hyperthermia, hypoxia, and electrolyte abnormalities will be discussed.

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Section: Consumption and General Side Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cocaine Induced Cardiac Arrhythmias

Reinfeld

2024

J Cardiol Cardiovasc Res.

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“…Scholars investigating these disruptions have linked the study of non‐state armed actors contesting the state's territorial sovereignty to their volatile attempts to invest in resource extraction and demonstrated that organised crime, private and state actors are co‐dependent on the building of infrastructures to foster their political economies (Peñaranda Currie et al. 2021). Recent political ecology attempts to relate (state) violence and resources, extraction, climate change, and shifting geologies (Escalona Ulloa and Barton 2020) have clearly demonstrated the importance to further study the socio‐material links between cities, state violence, and other‐than‐state violence.…”

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“Captains of the Sands”: Urban Illicit Ecologies and Sandscapes in Rio de Janeiro

Müller

2024

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Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has explored human–soil relations, emphasising the political dimensions of environmental degradation in and through urbanisation. However, UPE lacks critical reflection on governance collusions with illicit actors. Bridging this gap, my paper combines UPE with literature on criminal urban governance, focusing on how urban sand shapes illicit urbanisation. To address UPE's oversight of criminal governance, I explore Rio de Janeiro's militias expanding their illegal portfolio through terrain modification, linking illicit activities to territorial control. Integrating criminal governance with UPE, I argue for the concept of Urban Illicit Ecologies (UIE). Urban sandscapes become multi‐sited, illicit geographies revealing imbrications of formal state and criminal actors, political dimensions, and inequalities in resource extraction and environmental processes. By understanding urban illicit ecology, we gain insights into the contested claims of political authority and territorial control between militias and the state.

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“…Governance in Urabá is thus associated to the presence of these armed actors. In fact, the Colombian state is many times hard to locate and distinguish from illicit activities, and alliances with one‐time paramilitaries and other criminal organizations regulate social life and most economic activities, especially in the peripheries (Gill, 2015; Osuna, 2015; Ramírez, 2015, Peñaranda et al., 2021).…”

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Discerning networks: Distortions of human movement in Urabá, Colombia

Echeverri Zuluaga,

Ordóñez

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Colombian region of Urabá, that borders Panama, has gained notoriety for the transit of people moving from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean to North America. Using an ethnographic approach, this article examines how the accounts of local bureaucrats and other actors in the region frame these movements within the influence of “redes,” that is, networks, a vague reference to the hold illegal armed actors and smugglers have over the region. We argue that redes works as a placeholder that simplifies the complexities around these types of migration and gives the phenomenon distorted contours which ignore the agency of people on‐the‐move. We contrast local accounts of the criminal influence over these movements to those of the travelers themselves who describe a variety of interactions along their journeys, but do not mention networks of this kind.

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What is the state made of? Coca, roads, and the materiality of state formation in the frontier

Cited by 18 publications

References 27 publications

Cocaine Induced Cardiac Arrhythmias

Cocaine Induced Cardiac Arrhythmias

“Captains of the Sands”: Urban Illicit Ecologies and Sandscapes in Rio de Janeiro

Discerning networks: Distortions of human movement in Urabá, Colombia

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