Catching the White Fish: Gossip and cocaine on Colombia’s Northern Pacific coast
Channel: Dra. Edmé Domínguez
Date: 2021-06-18

Nicolás Acosta García is a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the School of Global Studies. His research focuses on the effects on development and biodiversity conservation on local, afro-descendant and indigenous people. 

What is life like after drift-cocaine arrives in a village on Colombia’s Northern Pacific coast? Drift-cocaine is a side-effect of the interdiction of drug transport boats heading towards Central and North America as part of the US-Colombian War on Drugs. This talk discusses the effects and relations that emerge from an ocean turned into an amphitheatre of fishing livelihoods, drug traffickers, and military operations. 

Seminar recorded on 24 Marcho 2021. 
Language: English