Introduction: thinking about social violence in Brazil -- Setting the scene: continuities and discontinuities in a "divided city" -- Network approach to criminal politics -- Tubarao -- Santa Ana -- Vigrio Geral -- Comparative analysis of criminal networks in Brazil and Latin America -- Theorizing the politics of social violence -- Epilogue: Rio 2005
Criminal networks are deeply embedded in political systems across the region, often colluding with elected officials and the police. Fifth in a series on ways of governing.
Arias reviews Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil by Livio Sansone and Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown by Donna Goldstein.
Introduction: The moral economy of the cocaine trade / Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi -- The white factory : coca, cocaine, and informal governance in the Chapare, Bolivia / Thomas Grisaffi -- Tracing cocaine supply chains from within : illicit flows, armed conflict, and the moral economy of Andean borderlands / Annette Idler -- Drug crops, twisted motorcycles, and cultural loss in indigenous Colombia / Autumn Zellers-León -- From Corumbá to Rio : an ethnography of trafficking / Robert Gay -- Border, ghetto, prison : cocaine and social orders in Guatemala / Anthony W. Fontes -- Drug cartels, from political to criminal intermediation : The Caballeros Templarios' mirror sovereignty in Michoacán, Mexico / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison -- Of drugs, tortillas, and real estate : on the tangible and intangible benefits of drug dealing in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- "A very well-established culture" : cocaine market self-regulation as alternative governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Lilian Bobea and Cyrus Veeser -- Visible and invisible "cracklands" in Brazil : moral drug commerce and the production of space in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990-2017) / Taniele Rui -- The violence of the American dream in segregated US inner-city narcotics markets / Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos, and Fernando Montero -- Shifting south : cocaine's historical present and the changing politics of drug war, 1975-2015 / Paul Gootenberg -- Conclusion. Responding to cocaine's moral economies / Enrique Desmond Arias.