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Accepted Paper:
The agrarian political economy of illicit drug crops
Frances Thomson
(SOAS University of London)
Jonathan Goodhand
(SOAS University of London)
Patrick Meehan
(University of Manchester)
This paper examines illicit drug crop (IDC) economies from agrarian perspectives.
Paper long abstract:
This article, and the forum it introduces, examine illicit drug crop (IDC) economies from agrarian perspectives. Examining IDCs as a group implies analysing how prohibition distinguishes them from other (licit) crops. We identify seven mechanisms through which prohibition shapes the agrarian political economy of IDCs and explore how these mechanisms and their effects generate distinctive patterns of development and political action. We also examine the continuities and connections between illicit and licit crops, including how licit crop crises and illicit crop booms intertwine. We argue that IDC economies provide a bulwark for smallholders but are by no means peasant idylls.