Author: Richard Kernaghan
In contemporary accounts of the Shining Path insurgency and Peru's internal war, the Upper Huallaga Valley has largely been overlooked—despite its former place as the country's main cocaine-producing region. From afar, the Upper Huallaga became a political and legal no-man's-land. Up close, vibrant networks of connection endured despite strict controls on human habitation and movement. This book asks what happens to such a place once prolonged conflict has ostensibly passed. How have ordinary encounters with land, territory, and law, and with the river that runs through them all, been altered in the aftermaths of war?
with commentary by
Abdoulaye Kane (UF Anthropology, Center for African Studies)
Mario Rufer (Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitano-Xochimilco)
Joel Correia (Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University)
Nancy Hunt (UF History, Center for African Studies)