Living Dangerously: Confronting Insecurity, Navigating Risk, and Negotiating Livelihoods in the Hidden Economy of Congo’s Cannabis Trade

Living Dangerously: Confronting Insecurity, Navigating Risk, and Negotiating Livelihoods in the Hidden Economy of Congo’s Cannabis Trade

IntroductionA middle-aged Congolese man stands in front of one of several of his shambas located deep in the Moyens Plateaux of the DRC’s South Kivu Province. Vibrant green foliage largely dominated by a single plant species, surrounds and almost overwhelms the slight stature of the man. The man ho...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo,
Autor principal: Laudati, Ann
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: EchoGéo 2024
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Narratives surrounding the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s rich natural resource base have been largely attentive to the way that resources shape the enduring violence in the region. Current policies regarding Congo’s cannabis trade
which advocate for its continued prohibition
exemplify such framings. Drawing on over sixteen months of qualitative fieldwork with those engaged in the production and trade of the drug
this paper presents a direct challenge to the narrative of violence
and greed that currently foregrounds most discussions of Congo’s cannabis economy. It reframes the cannabis trade as a response to Congo’s landscape of insecurity
rather than a symptom of it. It offers evidence of how it is rather the plant’s illegality and the extra-legal networks its illegality engenders that are shaping the terms of this dangerous trade. In so doing
this paper seeks to confront how we understand the very terms of risk and insecurity as played out in the day-to-day lives of those who navigate through the hidden economy of Congo’s cannabis trade.
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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