‘We are not drug traffickers, we are Colombian peasants’ : the voices and history of cocaleros in the substitution programme of illicit crops in Colombia
- Author
- Itayosara Rojas Herrera and Joost Dessein (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- Drugs and development policies lack a historical and political economy perspective. This has led to a situation where issues of everyday state-making and agrarian conflicts are ignored. Alternative frameworks that incorporate these elements do not go beyond mere procedural participation. This is also the case with Colombia's Comprehensive Plan for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (‘PNIS’), resulting from the recent 2016 peace agreement. Through ethnographic work and content analysis of coca growers' demands, we demonstrate how coca growers are the ones who best understand the historical reasons that led them to participate in this economy and therefore, who can most clearly design and implement transition strategies in drugs and development policies. In addition to history and political economy, alternative approaches must draw on the experiences of those who have suffered from state-building processes.
- Keywords
- Sociology and Political Science, Colombia, Cocaleros, Peace agreement, Substitution program, State-making, Political economy
Downloads
-
Ita Rojas and Joost Dessein 2023 Geoforum VoR.pdf
- full text (Published version)
- |
- open access
- |
- |
- 1.62 MB
Citation
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01GWP9ATY3QFJW71R3KQE71PCE
- MLA
- Rojas Herrera, Itayosara, and Joost Dessein. “’We Are Not Drug Traffickers, We Are Colombian Peasants’ : The Voices and History of Cocaleros in the Substitution Programme of Illicit Crops in Colombia.” GEOFORUM, vol. 141, 2023, doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103734.
- APA
- Rojas Herrera, I., & Dessein, J. (2023). ’We are not drug traffickers, we are Colombian peasants’ : the voices and history of cocaleros in the substitution programme of illicit crops in Colombia. GEOFORUM, 141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103734
- Chicago author-date
- Rojas Herrera, Itayosara, and Joost Dessein. 2023. “’We Are Not Drug Traffickers, We Are Colombian Peasants’ : The Voices and History of Cocaleros in the Substitution Programme of Illicit Crops in Colombia.” GEOFORUM 141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103734.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Rojas Herrera, Itayosara, and Joost Dessein. 2023. “’We Are Not Drug Traffickers, We Are Colombian Peasants’ : The Voices and History of Cocaleros in the Substitution Programme of Illicit Crops in Colombia.” GEOFORUM 141. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103734.
- Vancouver
- 1.Rojas Herrera I, Dessein J. ’We are not drug traffickers, we are Colombian peasants’ : the voices and history of cocaleros in the substitution programme of illicit crops in Colombia. GEOFORUM. 2023;141.
- IEEE
- [1]I. Rojas Herrera and J. Dessein, “’We are not drug traffickers, we are Colombian peasants’ : the voices and history of cocaleros in the substitution programme of illicit crops in Colombia,” GEOFORUM, vol. 141, 2023.
@article{01GWP9ATY3QFJW71R3KQE71PCE,
abstract = {{Drugs and development policies lack a historical and political economy perspective. This has led to a situation where issues of everyday state-making and agrarian conflicts are ignored. Alternative frameworks that incorporate these elements do not go beyond mere procedural participation. This is also the case with Colombia's Comprehensive Plan for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (‘PNIS’), resulting from the recent 2016 peace agreement. Through ethnographic work and content analysis of coca growers' demands, we demonstrate how coca growers are the ones who best understand the historical reasons that led them to participate in this economy and therefore, who can most clearly design and implement transition strategies in drugs and development policies. In addition to history and political economy, alternative approaches must draw on the experiences of those who have suffered from state-building processes.}},
articleno = {{103734}},
author = {{Rojas Herrera, Itayosara and Dessein, Joost}},
issn = {{0016-7185}},
journal = {{GEOFORUM}},
keywords = {{Sociology and Political Science,Colombia,Cocaleros,Peace agreement,Substitution program,State-making,Political economy}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{11}},
title = {{‘We are not drug traffickers, we are Colombian peasants’ : the voices and history of cocaleros in the substitution programme of illicit crops in Colombia}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103734}},
volume = {{141}},
year = {{2023}},
}
- Altmetric
- View in Altmetric
- Web of Science
- Times cited: