Adele Blazquez

During my stay at the IWM I will turn my dissertation, which questions the everyday relations of domination and exploitation in drug production areas of Northern Mexico, into a book. Through an 18-month ethnography, my research focuses on the experience of violence and vulnerability of the inhabitants and poppy cultivators of Badiraguato, the birthplace of Joaquín Guzmán Loera (“El Chapo”), and commonly considered the cradle of drug trafficking in Mexico.