Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands

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Main author: Meehan, Patrick
Other authors: Dan, Seng Lawn
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description 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 overlapping and cumulative forms of export-oriented resource extraction, and the upsurge of opium cultivation and drug use. Through the analytic of extractivism, we examine how the modalities surrounding logging and plantations in the Myanmar-China borderlands offer critical insights into how drugs have become entrenched in the region’s political economy and the everyday lives of people ‘living with’ the destruction, violence and insecurity wrought by extractive development.
format Journal Article
author Meehan, Patrick
author_facet Meehan, Patrick
Dan, Seng Lawn
authorStr Meehan, Patrick
author_letter Meehan, Patrick
author2 Dan, Seng Lawn
author2Str Dan, Seng Lawn
title Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2024
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/40948/

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