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Drugs, Violence and Latin America - Global Psychotropy and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Drugs, Violence and Latin America - Global Psychotropy and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal
with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially
in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either
focused on an aesthetic "sobriety" in these works or discounted
them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention,
Drugs, Violence, and Latin America illuminates how such work may
reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication.
Theorizing a "dialectics of intoxication" that illustrates how
psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its
relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies
influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for
social control within both licit and illicit economies. A
consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America
provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels
that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism,
challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves
and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence.
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