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  • What Is Drug Policy For?

    by Julia Buxton ...
    Series series What Is It For?
    The production, sale and possession of some drugs is criminalized – but why? And why, despite vast resources and budgets, have international efforts to control them so consistently failed?Julia Buxton looks at how our current drug control regime came about from the first US-driven international meeting on drug control in the early 20th century and the ideologies behind it. She also charts the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Failure of Political Reform in Venezuela

    by Julia Buxton ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. The victory of former lieutenant colonel Hugo Chavez in the Venezuelan presidential elections of 1998 was criticized as a blow against the country's deep-seated democratic tradition. It is claimed that this simplistic argument fails to recognize the extent of democratic deterioration in the country and the limitations imposed by discredited political actors ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Narcotics

    by Julia Buxton ...
    This book explores the origins, history and organisation of the international system of narcotic drug control with a specific focus on heroin, cannabis and cocaine. It argues that the century-long quest to eliminate the production, trade in and use of narcotic drugs has been a profound failure. The statistics produced by the international and domestic narcotic drug control agencies point to a ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Latin America

    Experiments in Radical Social Democracy

    by Ernesto Vivares, Francisco Dominguez, John Crabtree, Valeria Guarneros-Meza, Guy Burton, Julia Buxton, Sara Motta-Mera, Leonardo Diaz-Echenique, Sue Branford, Patricio Silva, Javier Ozorio ...
    Reclaiming Latin America is a one-stop guide to the revival of social democratic and socialist politics across the region.At the end of the Cold War, and through decades of neoliberal domination and the 'Washington Consensus' it seemed that the left could do nothing but beat a ragged retreat in Latin America. Yet this book looks at the new opportunities that sprang up through electoral politics ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Politics of Narcotic Drugs

    A Survey

    Edited by Julia Buxton ...
    Series series Europa Politics of ... series
    The Politics of Narcotic Drugs brings together leading experts on the drugs trade to provide an accessible yet detailed analysis of the multiple challenges that the contemporary trade in narcotic drugs and its prohibition pose, from the local to the international community.Through the use of country and regional case studies that include Afghanistan, Mexico, Colombia and the Middle East, the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women

    Shifting the Needle

    Edited by Julia Buxton, Giavana Margo, Lona Burger ...
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The international strategy of criminalising the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and use of certain psychoactive substances has failed to achieve a ‘drug free world’. Examining the impact of drug criminalisation and enforcement on a previously overlooked demographic, this edited collection argues that women ... Read more

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    For the last 50 years, drug prohibition laws have put the market for illegal drugs into the hands of organised criminals. Now, it’s time to take control.Ending the failed war on drugs will reduce drug-related violence, tackle organised crime, end the needless criminalisation of millions, and will halt the drain on government funds and resources.In this book, global opinion-leaders on the frontline ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • International Drug Control

    Consensus Fractured

    by David R. Bewley-Taylor ...
    There remains substantial agreement among the international community on many aspects of the contemporary UN drug control regime. However, diverging views on the non-medical and non-scientific use of a range of controlled substances make drug policy an increasingly contested and transitionary field of multinational cooperation. Employing a fine-grained and interdisciplinary approach, this book ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • More Harm Than Good

    Drug Policy in Canada

    by Susan C. Boyd, Connie I. Carter, Donald MacPherson ...
    In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm Than Good is shaped by critical sociology and feminist perspectives on drugs and incorporates insights ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Human Right to Health (Norton Global Ethics Series)

    by Jonathan Wolff ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    “A broad-ranging, insightful analysis of the complex practical and ethical issues involved in global health.”—Kirkus ReviewsFew topics in human rights have inspired as much debate as the right to health. Proponents would enshrine it as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of speech and freedom from torture. Detractors suggest that the movement constitutes an impractical over-reach. Jonathan ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Marijuana

    A Short History

    by John Hudak ...
    Series series The Short Histories
    This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as the general reader, across a broad range of subjects including Archaeology, Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, ... Read more

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  • Volume 2: Housing and Home

    by Alma Clavin, Niamh Moore-Cherry, Carla Maria Kayanan, Faryal Diwan, Samadrita Das, Kamalika Banerjee, Sher Afgan Tareen, Amanda Furiasse, Dennis Archambault, Claudia Sanford, Tam Perry, Rosalie Warnock, Julia de Kadt, Alexandra Parker, Brian Robson, Dillon Newton, Leanne Monchuk, Rachel Armitage, Philip Brown, Yu Wang, Guanyu Jason Ran, Liangni Sally Liu, Lukas Stevens, Wescley Xavier, Luca Maria Francesco Fabris, Federico Camerin, Yuvacan Atmaca, Zeynep Atas, Phil Hubbard, Loretta Lees, Derek Hyra, Rebecca Tunstall ...
    Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
    The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban ... Read more

    $28.49 USD