Rational choice perspectives have been the dominant models used for conceptualizing the
nature of exchanges in illicit drug markets, but various critiques have found these abstracted …

Based on life history interviews with successfully retired drug dealers, this article examines
opportunities and challenges in the suburban underground economy.“Friendship” is key …

Purpose To expand understandings of conflict, this chapter offers a detailed assessment of
how exchange is enacted within local heroin markets. Addressing drug dealing and heroin …

This essay highlights the profundity of recent demographic change in Morocco, and explores
its implications in a selection of ethnographic studies. The rural/urban divide is an especially …

From khat to kava to ketamine, drugs are constitutive parts of cultures, identities, economies
and livelihoods. This much-needed book is a clear introduction to the anthropology of drugs …

Background: Much of the research on the emergence and recent trends in the opioid
epidemic in the United States examines differences by either race or place. Yet, the few …

Como manifestación del Crimen organizado, el estudio de los mercados ilegales implica
explorar fenómenos cuya racionalidad económica trasciende–más no desconoce-su …

Dominant explanations of the drug-exchange process in offline1 illicit drug markets rely on
perspectives of rationality and utility-maximisation (Caulkins & Reuter, 2006; Dwyer & …