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Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State

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Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State book

Ongoing regulation, resistance and change

Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State

DOI link for Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State

Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State book

Ongoing regulation, resistance and change
Edited ByStewart Williams, Barney Warf
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 2 October 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315204468
Pages 162 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315204468
SubjectsGeography, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Williams, S. (Ed.), Warf, B. (Ed.). (2017). Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315204468

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |9 pages

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

ByStewart Williams, Barney Warf

chapter |16 pages

Drug laws, bioprospecting and the agricultural heritage of Cannabis in Africa

ByChris S. Duvall

chapter |13 pages

The myth of the narco-state

ByPierre-Arnaud Chouvy

chapter |20 pages

From rakı to ayran: regulating the place and practice of drinking in Turkey

ByEmine Ö. Evered, Kyle T. Evered

chapter |16 pages

Neoliberalism and the alcohol industry in Ireland

ByJulien Mercille

chapter |20 pages

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

ByStephen Parkin

chapter |14 pages

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

ByStewart Williams

chapter |15 pages

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

ByAndrew Longhurst, Eugene McCann

chapter |18 pages

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

ByCristina Temenos

chapter |7 pages

Conclusions

ByBarney Warf, Stewart Williams
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