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Outlaw
Author(s) -
Polson Michael
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal for the anthropology of north america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2475-5389
DOI - 10.1002/nad.12108
Subject(s) - legalization , capitalism , social dynamics , cannabis , sociology , political science , criminology , political economy , social science , law , politics , psychology , psychiatry
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.