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Harm Reduction Journal, 2021 This paper reviews evidence of how drug control has been used to uphold colonial power structures in select countries. It demonstrates the racist and xenophobic impact of drug control policy and proposes a path to move beyond oppressive systems and ...
Colleen Daniels +8 more
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Getting Out of the Trap of War on Drugs
JKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik), 2017 The aim of this paper is to reveal several factors why war on drugs is still adopted by The Indonesian goverment and to offer an alternative approach as a problem solver.
Erwinton Simatupang
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From the Criminalization of Substances to the “War on Drugs” Policy: A Century of Prohibitionism in Brazil [PDF]
Revista Direito GVIn 1921, Decree 4,294 defined prohibitionism as the referential model of state response to drugs in Brazil. One century later, not only is the approach still enshrined in national legislation but also materialized in a complex institutional and ...
José Guilherme Magalhães e Silva +2 more
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Just Say No (For Now): The Ethics of Illegal Drug Use
Law, Ethics and Philosophy, 2018 The war on drugs is widely criticized as unjust. The idea that the laws prohibiting drugs are unjust can easily lead to the conclusion that those laws do not deserve our respect, so that our only moral reason to obey them flows from a general moral ...
Mathieu Doucet
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BMJ, 1995 Drugs, says psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, have taken over the lead role from sex in the “the grand morality play of human existence.”1 “No longer,” says Szasz, “are men, women, and children tempted, corrupted, and ruined by the irresistibly sweet pleasures of sex; instead, they are tempted, corrupted, and ruined by the irresistibly sweet pleasures of ...
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Goffman and the Mafia: shaping YouTube's technological affordances in the war on drugs
Tapuya, 2020 This paper advances the discussion about the interactions enabled through communication technologies by articulating Goffman’s theory of strategic interactions and Trevor Pinch’s concept of co-presence, and applying them to analyze the way a Mafia’s ...
Alin Ake-Kob
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Missing in Mexico: Denied victims, neglected stories
Culture & History Digital Journal, 2014 In this article, I will describe the mostly invisibilized “fight for rehumanization” of the families of the dehumanized disappeared of the Mexican Dirty War of the 1960s and 1970s. The conflictive memory politics in Mexico and the ambivalent transitional
Sylvia Karl
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The Philippine Sex Workers Collective: Struggling to be heard, not saved
Anti-Trafficking Review, 2019 The Philippine Sex Workers Collective is an organisation of current and former sex workers who reject the criminalisation of sex work and the dominant portrayal of sex workers as victims. Based on my interviews with leaders of the Collective and ...
Sharmila Parmanand
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Hegemony and Humanitarian Norms: The U.S. Legitimation of Toxic Violence
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2015 Despite widespread beliefs that the United States has not used chemical weapons since the distant past of World War I, this study suggests a more complicated history by examining U.S.
Eric Bonds
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Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 This article breaks new conceptual ground by questioning orthodox interpretations of nation state agency in the global drug wars. Specifically, it challenges the David vs.
John Collins, Karen Torres Alarcón
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