Geographies of Cocaine: Trajectories of Colombian Women Imprisoned for Drug Trafficking in Ecuador
This article examines the geography of cocaine through the testimonies of four Colombian women serving time in the Latacunga prison located just south of Quito in Ecuador. The conversations with these women and the ethnography of the visit to the Latacunga prison illustrate how global processes, in...
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| description | This article examines the geography of cocaine through the testimonies of four Colombian women serving time in the Latacunga prison located just south of Quito in Ecuador. The conversations with these women and the ethnography of the visit to the Latacunga prison illustrate how global processes, in this case surrounding the coca economy and the struggle for its control, are embodied in lived experiences. In the testimonies of these women two different geographies of cocaine emerged: one that criminalizes the movement of "suspicious" bodies and rearticulates international borders within the walls of the prison. In contrast, there is another geography that is constituted through the clandestine journeys these women take and in confronting the barriers that this first geography of illegality imposes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-41cc9af3801f403eafc0eb6d559572642025-02-02T08:46:02ZspaFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede EcuadorÍconos1390-12492224-69832018-05-012261516910.17141/iconos.61.2018.3383Geographies of Cocaine: Trajectories of Colombian Women Imprisoned for Drug Trafficking in EcuadorAna María Cerón Cáceres 0Universidad Externado de ColombiaThis article examines the geography of cocaine through the testimonies of four Colombian women serving time in the Latacunga prison located just south of Quito in Ecuador. The conversations with these women and the ethnography of the visit to the Latacunga prison illustrate how global processes, in this case surrounding the coca economy and the struggle for its control, are embodied in lived experiences. In the testimonies of these women two different geographies of cocaine emerged: one that criminalizes the movement of "suspicious" bodies and rearticulates international borders within the walls of the prison. In contrast, there is another geography that is constituted through the clandestine journeys these women take and in confronting the barriers that this first geography of illegality imposes.http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/3383prisionbordercocainefeminist geographymigration |
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| title | Geographies of Cocaine: Trajectories of Colombian Women Imprisoned for Drug Trafficking in Ecuador |
| title_full | Geographies of Cocaine: Trajectories of Colombian Women Imprisoned for Drug Trafficking in Ecuador |
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| title_short | Geographies of Cocaine: Trajectories of Colombian Women Imprisoned for Drug Trafficking in Ecuador |
| title_sort | geographies of cocaine trajectories of colombian women imprisoned for drug trafficking in ecuador |
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