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The war on drugs and the global colour line /edited by Kojo Koram.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, Pluto Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786804082
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV5801 .W376 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Kojo Koram; 1. Benevolent whiteness in Canadian drug regulation -- Elise Wohlbold and Dawn Moore; 2. Policing the 'Black party': racialized drugs policing at festivals in the UK -- Tanzil Chowdhury; 3. Racism and drug policy: criminal control and the management of Black bodies by the Brazilian State -- Evandro Piza Duarte and Felipe da Silva Freitas; 4. Necropolitical wars -- Ariadna Estevez; 5. The apotheosis of war in Colombia -- Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and Kojo Koram
Ashley Bohrer and Andres Fabian Henao Castro7. Perpetuating apartheid: South African drug policy -- Shaun Shelly and Simon Howell; 8. Racism and social injustice in War on Drugs narratives in Indonesia -- Asmin Fransiska; 9. Colonial roots of the global pandemic of untreated pain -- Katherine Pettus; Notes on contributors; Index
Subject: An international collection of essays revealing the racism inherent in the War on Drugs.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- Kojo Koram; 1. Benevolent whiteness in Canadian drug regulation -- Elise Wohlbold and Dawn Moore; 2. Policing the 'Black party': racialized drugs policing at festivals in the UK -- Tanzil Chowdhury; 3. Racism and drug policy: criminal control and the management of Black bodies by the Brazilian State -- Evandro Piza Duarte and Felipe da Silva Freitas; 4. Necropolitical wars -- Ariadna Estevez; 5. The apotheosis of war in Colombia -- Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and Kojo Koram

6. A people's history of police exchanges: settler colonialism, capitalism and the intersectionality of struggles -- Ashley Bohrer and Andres Fabian Henao Castro7. Perpetuating apartheid: South African drug policy -- Shaun Shelly and Simon Howell; 8. Racism and social injustice in War on Drugs narratives in Indonesia -- Asmin Fransiska; 9. Colonial roots of the global pandemic of untreated pain -- Katherine Pettus; Notes on contributors; Index

An international collection of essays revealing the racism inherent in the War on Drugs.

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