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Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands (2023)
Journal Article
Meehan, P., & Dan, S. L. (2024). Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(4), 922-959. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2271403

This paper explores the intersections between two phenomena that have shaped eastern Kachin State in Myanmar’s northern borderlands with China since the late 1980s: the transformation of once-remote spaces into resource frontiers shaped by overlappin... Read More about Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands.

Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda (2023)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., Ballvé, T., & Meehan, P. (2024). Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(4), 801-825. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2258808

A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role. But not all frontiers are the... Read More about Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda.