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The Educational Nexus to the War on Drugs: A Systematic Review

Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2020
The war on drugs has had a heavy impact on educational settings, yet to date the fields of education in emergencies and comparative and international education have largely overlooked it.
Rodríguez-Gómez, Diana, Bermeo, Maria Jose   +1 more
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Mexico’s Long War on Drugs: Past and Present Failures of a Punitive Approach to Drugs

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022
The aim of this policy commentary is two-fold. First, to examine new historical research regarding the political, cultural, and social drivers informing the design and implementation of Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’ – a set of state policies centered on ...
Gema Kloppe-Santamaria
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The Unresolved History and Genealogy of Forced Displacement in Mexico

Íconos, 2016
This article reconstructs symbolic elements and practices that underline the recent dispute over the characterization and nature of “forced displacement” in Mexico.
Carolina Robledo Silvestre
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The ‘Real Man’ in the Global War on Drugs: Narco versus Militarised Masculinities

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022
Drawing on a discursive analysis of the life stories of thirty-three men who worked in drug trade organisations in Mexico, this article examines how masculinities are constructed in their narratives, and how these constructions mirror militarised ...
Karina García-Reyes
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Bad Trip: Drug Prohibition and the Weakness of Public Policy [PDF]

, 1994
The case against prohibition is overwhelming precisely because so many different types of considerations all point to a single solution: the legalization of illicit drugs.
Barnett, Randy E
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Social construction of drug policies and target populations: U.S. Policy and media discourse

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2017
In this review, we discuss the historical changes in U.S. drug policy discourse, institutional racism, and the social construction of target populations in media discourse.
Jonathan Langner, Anna Zajicek
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The Metaphor of "War on Drugs" and "Mass Murder" in the Philippines: discourse analysis, power relations, and an interview with President Rodrigo Duterte

Revista Neiba, 2019
This article offers an analysis of statements pronounced by Rodrigo Duterte in an interview produced by Al Jazeera. It shows how Duterte tried to legitimize the extrajudicial killing of more than 3.500 citizens through these statements and rhetoric, a ...
Gabriel Gama de Oliveira Brasilino
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Microsoft’s drug dealer: digital disruption and a corporate conversion of informal improvisation

Tapuya, 2020
Over the last three decades, technology companies have promoted the “disruptive” potentials of the information age. Brazilian favelas (shantytowns) provide one of the most popular examples used to describe how digital disruption applies to informal urban
Jason Bartholomew Scott
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Barack Obama Administration and the “war on drugs”

Meridiano 47, 2017
This article analyzes USA international drug policy and aims to understand if there were changes during Barack Obama administration. In order to do so, initially it presents a brief historical, then the focus is on Obama administration planning and ...
Livia Peres Milani
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PHILIPINES POLICY OF WAR ON DRUGS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW

Journal of Social Political Sciences, 2023
This study aims to explain what human rights violations occurred in the War on Drugs Policy in the Philippines and the response given by the international community. The method used in this research is the qualitative method.
Aroon Adan, Ariana Bituin, Jane Darian   +2 more
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