Kojo Koram

The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line

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Produktbeschreibung

The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe. While laws prohibiting the production, sale and use of particular drugs are presented as politically neutral and objective, this collection reveals the racist impact of the war on drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations. From racialised drugs policing at festivals in the UK to the necropolitical wars in Juarez, Mexico and from the exchange of drug policing programs between the United States and Israel to the management of black bodies in Brazil, this collection proves that the regulation of drugs and race is an international, and intentional, disaster. Pushing forward the debate and activism led by groups such as Black Lives Matter and calling for radical changes in drug policy legislation and prison reform, both nationally and internationally, this collection cuts deep and rings true for all people fighting racism today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780745338828
• ISBN-10: 0745338828
• Artikelnr.: 54804729

Autorenporträt

Kojo Koram is a lecturer at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (Pluto, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Estévez
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 Andrés Fabián
Henao Castro
7. 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