Underground Politics - 9781512824582

Underground PoliticsGold Mining and State-Making in Colombia\nAuthor(s): Jesse Jonkman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9781512824582, 978-1512824582\nSynopsis\nHow Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect\n In the Choc rainforests of Colombia, local and settler miners turn to gold as a means to get by and get ahead on the margins of capitalism. They eke out livelihoods while worrying about the declining richness of subsoils, their heightened persecution by state troops, the stigmatizing language of politicians, and the extortion of paramilitaries and guerrillas. Underground Politics follows the everyday sociopolitical life of this supposedly lawless gold frontier, revealing how gold-mining communities in Choc navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect.\n Drawing on ethnographic encounters and .