Bogotá Dreaming: Premonitions, Nightmares, and Violence's Impossibility
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology September 1, 2026 Andrés Romero
ABSTRACT This narrative‐driven article explores the dream worlds of people in Bogotá’s downtown drug markets ( ollas ) and rehab centers ( patios ) following the Colombian state's 2016 militarized drug market raids. Drawing on twenty‐one months of fieldwork, it takes up dreams not as residues of a bounded psyche but as co‐constructed worlds where the dead and other forces act upon or orient the...