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Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South (Paperback)
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Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South (Paperback)
Series: ThirdWorlds
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More than a hundred years have passed since the adoption of the
first prohibitionist laws on drugs. Increasingly, the edifice of
international drug control and laws is vacillating under pressures
of reform. Scholarship on drugs history and policy has had a
tendency to look at the issue mostly in the Western hemisphere of
the globe or to privilege Western narratives of drugs and drugs
policy. This volume instead turns this approach upside down and
makes an intellectual attempt to redefine the subject of drugs in
the Global South. Opium, heroin, cannabis, hashish,
methamphetamines and khat are among the drugs discussed in the
contributions to the volume, which spans from Sub-Saharan Africa to
Southeast Asia, including the Middle East, North Africa, Latin
America and the Indian Subcontinent. The volume also makes a
powerful case for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of
drugs by juxtaposing the work of historians, political scientists,
geographers, anthropologists and criminologists. Ultimately, this
edited volume is a rich and diverse collection of new case studies,
which opens up venues for further research. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
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