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Author:   Maziyar Ghiabi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367585181

ISBN 10:   0367585189
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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.

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