Fernández Lozano, Felipe - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 4 (2022) 3, pp. 296-309
In this paper, I explore the coping mechanisms deployed by shopkeepers in the face of extortion in the port city of Buenaventura, in southwestern Colombia. Relying on six months of fieldwork experience in a hardware shop of Ciudad Blanca, an impoverished neighborhood, I examine the everyday...