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Zusatztext "Muehlmann's gift for narrative provides a powerful analytical lens." Informationen zum Autor Shaylih Muehlmann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair in Language! Culture and the Environment at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext "This book is a rare gem. In contrast to today's often overheated and sensationalized accounts of "drug cartels" and "kingpins," Shaylih Muehlmann instead draws our attention to the too-often overlooked stories of the ordinary people at the margins of the drug economy in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Through fearless ethnographic research, she exposes the real "trenches" of the drug war along the border."—Peter Andreas, author of Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America “This is an outstanding book . . . deeply moving in parts and simply fascinating in others. It makes clear interventions, but in a language that a general readership would enjoy even as scholars will assign this book in their classes.”—Alexander Dawson, author of First World Dreams: Mexico Since 1989 “This work provides an original and incredibly important contribution to a wide body of literature on the drug war, and particularly the escalation of drug war violence over the past decade.”—Adrienne Pine, author of Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras Zusammenfassung Examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narco-trafficking along the US - Mexico border. This book explores the everyday reality of the drug trade by living alongside its low-level workers: those living at the edges of the violence generated by the militarization of "the war on drugs." Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Life at the Edges of the War on Drugs 1. Narco-Wives! Beauty Queens! and a Mother's Bribes 2. "When I Wear My Alligator Boots" 3. "A Narco without a Corrido Doesn't Exist" 4. The View from Cruz's Throne 5. Moving the Money When the Bank Accounts Get Full 6. "Now They Wear Tennis Shoes" Conclusion: Puro pa'delante Mexico Notes References Index ...
