Wars on drugs and uprisings : the maintenance of everyday intervention in Peru
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation critically investigates how state-led, US-supported war and intervention are governed, maintained and experienced. This research is based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork in Peru's Huallaga Valley, where for decades the governments of the Peru and the United States have conducted militarized and development-based interventions in the name of the war on drugs and war on terror. These interventions are premised on the Huallaga as a site of conflict between Shining Path insurgents, civilians, and the state in Peru's internal war in the 1980s and '90s, and as a former global leader in the production of illicit coca, the leaf crop used to make cocaine. These efforts are carried out through state-based, internationally-supported "alternative development" programs that simultaneously aim to disable internal conflict, eradicate drug crops, and promote new licit economies in place of illicit drug crop production. In this way, state and international agencies make the war on drugs an essential aspect of efforts to establish peace in drug-crop producing countries during and after internal conflict. While men and weaponized violence are often centered in public imaginaries of war and the illicit drug trade, this research focuses on the people, politics, and intimate everyday experiences that exist beyond these frames. Drawing on research with development officials, former and current drug crop farmers, domestic workers, coca eradicators, sex workers, military personnel, and Peruvian and US government employees, this work analyzes how the embodied and affective labor of a wide range of actors contributes to the maintenance of protracted war. It also discusses less-considered forms of violence, including domestic violence, that persisted before, during, and after internal conflict. While political and interpersonal violence are often analyzed separately, this work details the ways they were intricately linked. It shows how these linkages were integral to the governance of protracted war, and to the ways that cycles of violence against rural mestizo and Indigenous women, men, and gender-nonconforming people were perpetuated in landscapes of sustained intervention. In investigating extended forms of US and state interventionism deployed through the war on drugs and the complexities of everyday life as they existed in within and around these circumstances, this research demonstrates how hegemonies of power were constructed and challenged in daily life.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kendra, Allison Michelle |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Ferguson, James, 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Mathews, Andrew S |
| Thesis advisor | Thiranagama, Sharika |
| Degree committee member | Ferguson, James, 1959- |
| Degree committee member | Mathews, Andrew S |
| Degree committee member | Thiranagama, Sharika |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Allison Kendra. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/gc488wf9983 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Allison Michelle Kendra
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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