Outlaw. Issue 2 (20th November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Polson, Michael
• Is Part Of: Journal for the anthropology of North America. Volume 22:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 128
• Page End: 130
• Publication Date: 2019-11-20
• Subjects: capitalism -- frontiers -- cannabis legalization -- California -- illegality; Ethnology -- North America -- Periodicals; Ethnology; North America; Periodicals; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 305.8
• DOI: 10.1002/nad.12108
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2475-5389

Abstract

Abstract: Framed around the case of cannabis cultivation in Northern California, this essay explores the social category of the rural outlaw. It argues that outlawry consists not only in those whose actions are illegalized but also in the conditions through which racial capitalism accumulates and dispossesses at its various frontiers. Cannabis, before and after its legalization, gets caught up in various dynamics through which outlawry can be assessed.