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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0066FF">A reminder that Kendra McSweeney will be giving her faculty presentation today, October 31<sup>st</sup> in DB 1080 from 3:30-4:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040">Associate Professor, Department of Geography<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Grounding traffic: embedding the cocaine commodity chain in spaces of transit</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Illicit commodity flows are emerging from the shadows—increasingly recognized as a key part of neoliberal economic geographies. While sites of illicit commodity production and consumption gain greater attention,
sites of transit—so crucial to the functioning of illicit trade networks—remain largely unexplored. In this presentation, she will unpack the functioning of a single rural transshipment node in the global cocaine trade, tracing the ways in which cocaine transit
embeds in the social and ecological worlds of eastern Honduras’ Moskitia region. Drawing from long-term research with communities there, she will distinguish between background agrarian dynamics and those directly related to the region’s rise as a trafficking
hub post ca. 2006. I show how narco-rents are captured and laundered, and by whom, and review the implications of the study for scholarship on ‘land grabbing’ and the development of rural peripheries in general.
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