Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State by Williams, Stewart; Warf, Barney;

Rövid leírás:

This book examines different aspects to drugs and drug use as variously constituted through state regulation and the law. It explains how and to what effect their legal status is contingent on place, thus open to contestation and change, linking people and policy from local to global contexts. This book was originally published as a special issu

Hosszú leírás:

Though any psychoactive substance can be revered or reviled as a drug, as people’s cultural norms shift, ultimately its status is determined in law by the state. This publication explores the regulation of drugs – alcohol and cannabis to heroin and cocaine – and practices such as social drinking and public injecting under political regimes. Drugs are discussed in their geographical contexts: the colonial legacy of cannabis prohibition for bioprospecting in Africa; the veracity of the persistent notion of the narco-state; Turkey’s governance of drinking amid civil unrest; and alcohol’s place in the neoliberal political economy of Ireland. In addition, drug policies are examined: from problems in managing drug-related litter in the UK to supervised injecting facility provision in Australia; harm reduction in Canada; and the global network of drug policy activists. Place is significant, but porous borders, territorial overlaps and multi-scalar linkages are influential in remaking the world through current challenges to the ‘war on drugs’. This book was originally published as a special issue of Space & Polity.

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. Drugs, law, people, place and the state: ongoing regulation, resistance and change

2. Drug laws, bioprospecting and the agricultural heritage

3. The myth of the narco-state

4. From raks to ayran: regulating the place and practice of drinking in Turkey

5. Neoliberalism and the alcohol industry in Ireland

6. Colliding intervention in the spatial management of street-based injecting and drug-related litter within settings of public convenience (UK)

7. Space, scale and jurisdiction in health service provision for drug users: the legal geography of a supervised injecting facility

8. Political struggles on a frontier of harm reduction drug policy: geographies of constrained policy mobility

9. Mobilizing drug policy activism: conferences, convergence spaces and ephemeral fixtures in social movement mobilization

10. Conclusions