Titre : | Talking about the flow: drugs, borders, and the discourse of drug control |
Auteurs : | P. GOOTENBERG |
Type de document : | Périodique |
Année de publication : | 2009 |
Format : | 13-46 |
Note générale : |
Cultural Critique, 2009, (71), 13-46 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SHS (Sciences humaines et sociales / Humanities and social sciences) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés TRAFIC INTERNATIONAL ; DIFFUSION DES PRODUITS ; CONTROLE DES STUPEFIANTS ; MARCHE DE LA DROGUE ; HISTOIRE ; PRODUIT ILLICITE ; POLITIQUEThésaurus géographique INTERNATIONAL |
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ENGLISH :
This essay explores the relationships between illicit drug flows (my current area of historical research) and state borders. The larger theme, for objects-in-motion, is how statist languages of "control" underlie their construction and maintenance as illicit and criminalized flows. Students of drug trafficking can make public discourses about drugs a usefully explicit object of study. But in doing so they should also beware of the possible intellectual and political pitfalls of "talking like a state"- that is, of adopting the categories or characterizations of the illicit deployed by policing and regulatory agencies - for thinking well about such flows. Among other problems, it is hard for territorial states to supersede their stationary view of shifting, furtive, borderless activities, a dilemma of note in the recent war on terrorism as well. The essay winds its way to these ideas by addressing three topics: first, the relation of drugs to commodity studies writ large (how drugs were differentiated from other goods during the historic rise of commercial and industrial capitalism); second, the relation of drugs to the building of borders and states; and third, the role of bureaucratic-control language in marking and naturalizing the thin line between controlled substances and freer commodities. (Extract of the publication) |
Domaine : | Plusieurs produits / Several products |
Sous-type de document : | Revue de la littérature / Literature review |
Affiliation : | Etats-Unis. United States. |
Centre Emetteur : | 13 OFDT |
Cote : | A03899 |
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