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Book SynopsisAn international collection of essays revealing the racism inherent in the War on Drugs.
Trade Review'A monumental study of the transnational circuits of racist policing etched out through the War on Drugs, the immeasurable toll of human suffering they have induced, and the resistances mounted against them' -- Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming'
'Brilliantly evidences the continued and systematic racialisation of the global war on drugs. A timely study, not only in its analysis of the problem, but because it challenges us to think how drug policy reform works.' -- Niamh Eastwood, Executive Director, Release
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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
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