Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine - Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south.

List of contents

1. The Puzzles and Stories of Resilience 2. The Strange Bedfellows of the Illicit Drug Trade 3. Bankers without Suits: The Money Men of Informal and Illicit Economies 4. Survival and Resilience: The Paradox of Illicit Crops 5. Criminals without Borders: Deconstructing and Deciphering the Life Stories and Role of Drug Lords in Agrarian Transformation 6. Precarity, Illicit Markets and the 'Mystery' of Prices 7. Intended and Unintended Interdependencies

About the author

Eric D. U. Gutierrez is a practitioner-scholar with over 25 years of research experience and field-based work with NGOs investigating precarity, disturbance, and indeterminacy in the global south. He received his PhD (cum laude) from Erasmus University Rotterdam's International Institute of Social Studies (EUR-ISS). He was a member of the Executive Management Team of the Drugs and (Dis)Order Research Project led by SOAS-University of London, funded by the UK's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). He is now an independent consultant, a Research Fellow at EUR-ISS and the International Centre for Human Rights and Drugs Policy, and a member of the network of experts of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GITOC). A Philippine national, he lives with his family in Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Eric D. U. Gutierrez
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032500416
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250041-6
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Routledge Critical Development Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Organized crime, Legal aspects of criminology, Human Geography, Development Studies, Regional Geography, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agribusiness and primary industries, Criminology: legal aspects