Frontera Combustible: Conceptualising the State Through the Experiences of Petrol Smugglers in the Colombian/Venezuelan Borderlands of Norte de Santander/Táchira

This paper is based on an ongoing ethnographic research project conducted in the borderlands between Colombia and Venezuela, in particular the Colombian city of Cúcuta. There is a thriving smuggling trade between the two countries caused by Venezuela’s economic crisis and the extreme devaluation of...

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Main Author: Charles Beach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Extreme Anthropology Research Network 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of Extreme Anthropology
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Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/JEA/article/view/6257