ImagIned narcoscapes: narcoculture  and the polItIcs of representatIon

Issue editor: MIGUEL A. CABAñAS 

contents 

Introduction 

Imagined narcoscapes: narcoculture and the politics of representation MIGUEL A. CABAñAS .................................................... 3 

Articles 

Drug Trafficking and Political Power: Oligopolies of Coercion in Colombia  and Mexico GUSTAVO DUNCAN ...................................................... 18 

Mexico “Under Siege”: Drug Cartels or U.S. Imperialism? ALFREDO CARLOS ....................................................... 43 

Narco-propaganda in the mexican “drug War”: an anthropological perspective HOWARD CAMPBELL ..................................................... 60

The narcomedia: a reader’s guide PAUL K. ELSS ............................................................. 78 

Bare life in ciudad Juárez: violence in a space of exclusion STEPHEN ELSENHAMMER ................................................. 99 

The media-entertainment Industry and the “War on drugs” in mexico JULLEN MERCILLE ........................................................ 110 

Drug trafficking and literature: dangerous liaisons CECILIA LOPEZ BADANO ................................................. 130 

El cartel de los sapos: Illness, body, and nation AMURLCLO DUARTE ...................................................... 144 

In the crossfire: rascón banda’s Contrabando and the “narcoliterature”  debate in mexico SOPHIE ESCH ............................................................ 161

The state and the caudillo: legitimacy in Yuri herrera’s Trabajos del reino RAFAEL ACOSTA MORALES .............................................. 177 

Biopolitics and disposable bodies: a critical reading of almazán’s Entre perros HéCTOR A. REYES-ZAGA ................................................. 189 

The cult of Jesús malverde: crime and sanctity as elements of a  heterogeneous modernity GERARDO GóMEZ MICHEL AND JUNGWON PARK ......................... 202 

Narcoaesthetics in colombia, mexico, and the united states: death narco,  narco nations, border states, narcochingadazo? MIGUEL L. ROJAS SOTELO ................................... 215 

Book Review 

The global drug trade and the War on drugs in the americas:  a historical review MIGUEL A. CABAñAS .................................................... 232