For decades, cocaine trafficking has been a key factor in accelerating the social and
ecological transformation of rural landscapes across Latin America. In this review article, we …

In Post-Queer Politics, Ruffolo looks at the work of Foucault, Butler, Bakhtin, Deleuze,
Guattari and others in his creative refocus on the queer/heteronormative dyad that has …

The paper notes a growing, diverse and yet somewhat partial and disparate interest among
geographers in the illicit. Within this there has been little substantive interest in organized …

This review argues that organized crime accounts for a significant proportion of global
economic activity but despite this has yet to receive substantive attention from economic …

This article examines the process of consensus formation by the international community
regarding how to confront the problem of trafficking in persons. We analyze the corpus of …

North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home.
Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors, North …

My purpose in this article is selectively to draw upon and use the available evidence to
summarise the various forms/types of illegal activities, their relationships to the formal legal …

Organized crime and gang violence are global phenomena that often emerge in urban
areas. Although they are not new, states only recently began to perceive them as serious …

This seminal work is the first fully to engage human security with power in the international
system. It presents global governance not as impartial institutionalism, but as the calculated …

This paper is concerned with how to think the illicit and illegal as part of economies.
Economic geography has only recently begun to address this challenge but in limited ways …