Gloria C. Pérez-Rivera | Narcotrafficking, Informal Work, and Food Security

Gloria C. Pérez-Rivera is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, and incoming SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research examines financialization as a set of debt and credit relations that shapes the work and labour relations of socio-economically marginalized groups.

Further reading:

Duncan, Gustavo. 2015. Más que plata o plomo: el poder político del narcotráfico en Colombia y México. Bogotá, Colombia: Debate.

Gago, Verónica. 2015. La razón neoliberal: economías barrocas y pragmática popular. Madrid: Traficantes de sueños.

Gago, Veronica. 2017. Neoliberalism from below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies. Translated by Z. Mazon-Deese. Durham and London: Duke University press.

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, and Jack Meegan-Vickers. n.d. “A Pandemic and Organized Crime.” March 2020. https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/a-pandemic-and-organized-crime/.

Hristov, Jasmin. 2017. “Introduction: The Specter of Paramilitarism.” In Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism: Violent Systems of Capital Accumulation in Colombia and Beyond, 1–12. London: Pluto Press.

Pérez-Rivera, Gloria C. 2021. “Becoming Workers: Internally Displaced Youth in ‘Post-Conflict’ Colombia.” Youth Circulations (blog). May 10, 2021. http://www.youthcirculations.com/blog/2021/5/3/becoming-workers-internally-displaced-youth-in-post-conflict-colombia.