Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South

ISBN-13: 9780367585181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str.

Maziyar Ghiabi

Opis

The book brings together a unique collection of case studies on illicit drugs in the Global South. From Iranian meth to Indian cocaine, it takes the reader through unexpected narratives and stories across time and space. This book originally published in a special issue in Third World Quarterly.

Spis treści

Foreword: Decolonising drug studies in an era of predatory accumulation Philippe Bourgois  1. Introduction: Spirit and being: interdisciplinary reflections on drugs across history and politics Maziyar Ghiabi  Part I: Genealogies of Drugs  2. Decolonising drugs in Asia: the case of cocaine in colonial India James Mills  3. A diplomatic failure: the Mexican role in the demise of the 1940 Reglamento Federal de Toxicomanías Isaac Campos  4. Drugs of choice, drugs of change: Egyptian consumption habits since the 1920s Philip Robins  Part II: Ethnographies of Drugs  5. Drug booms and busts: poverty and prosperity in a Nicaraguan narco-barrio Dennis Rodgers  6. Maintaining disorder: the micropolitics of drugs policy in Iran Maziyar Ghiabi  7. ‘We Will Revive’: addiction, spiritual warfare, and recovery in Latin America’s cocaine production zone Pablo Seward Delaporte  Part III: Comparative Perspectives on Drug Wars  8. Fighting crime and maintaining order: shared worldviews of civilian and military elites in Brazil and Mexico Anaís M. Passos  9. Turning deserts into flowers: settlement and poppy cultivation in southwest Afghanistan David Mansfield  10. Quasilegality: khat, cannabis and Africa’s drug laws Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig  11. Why do South-east Asian states choose to suppress opium? A cross-case comparison James Windle

O autorze

Maziyar Ghiabi is Lecturer in Modern Iranian History at the University of Oxford, UK, and Titular Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paris School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), France, and a member of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire des Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS), France. Maziyar obtained his Doctorate in Politics at the University of Oxford (St Antony’s College) where he was a Wellcome Trust Scholar in Society and Ethics (2013–2017). Besides working on drug policy, Maziyar has published on urban ethnography and history from below.