... NAFTA War on Drugs drug economy drug cartels scalping beheading narcos jihadists Osama Bin Laden Javier Sicilia ...

... informal policing drug economies regulation of informal markets police killings ...

... regional analysis drug economies gangs cartels organized and disorganized crime ...

... The conclusion argues that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) facilitated the drug economy with its model of export-led manufacture and influx of cheap basic grains, which displaced millions of workers and peasants who turned to the drug economy as the only source of employment...

... Drugs were to the birth of the new Mexican state what gold was to the rise of capitalism in early modern Europe. In this chapter, the four contrasting types of “criminal-economy subregions” that are the principal spaces of articulation of the illicit transnational economy that now has Mexico...

... that is manifested in the inordinately high number of police officers who are killed each year. In this chapter, the contemporary history of the armed wings of the informal and illicit economies, and how they have overwhelmed the police, are explored. informal policing drug economies regulation of informal...

... This chapter describes the economic structure and living conditions of the daily-rent hotels in contrast to publicly funded housing designed to respond to chronic homelessness in adults without children. The moral economies of debt that surrounded the drug-sex economy and the actual financial...

... of experimental and therapeutic biomedical economies. corporate social responsibility drug donation ethics experiment Gleevec innovation monopoly multinational corporations philanthropy therapy ...

... of the economy and the protection of rights. NAFTA rule of law war on drugs populism neoliberalism ...

... of the daily-rent hotels, increased criminalization of the drug-sex economy and rapid gentrification were closing in on addicted, pregnant women, who sought survival and stability. The radical availability of suffering at this site made its ethnographic study a form of social science vulturism. While...

... specifically on Novartis’s drug donation program, the Gleevec International Patient Assistance Program (GIPAP), and the way in which it was established and run on the ground in India. In addition to imbrications of different registers of value (market and ethical), one sees here complex articulations...

... Between 1948 and 1967, the Leprosy Research Unit for Nigeria was stationed at the leprosy hospital and one-time colony at Uzuakoli, and some of the most important research on the chemotherapy of leprosy was carried out there. Drugs tested and standardized at Uzuakoli were circulated...

... This chapter offers an analysis of the temporalities that mattered most for addicted, pregnant women. Everyday physical realities (of hunger, drug withdrawal, and pregnancy), social interactions, and institutional involvements pulled women into and out of different temporalities. And at all...

... for Nigeria was stationed at the leprosy hospital and one-time colony at Uzuakoli, and some of the most important research on the chemotherapy of leprosy was carried out there. Drugs tested and standardized at Uzuakoli were circulated in semiformal networks among Nigerian leprosy workers and their patients...

... of fantasy” as a means of understanding the “parallax shift” that occurred with regard to representations of the Assassins in the Western literary imaginary following the French Revolution, a shift that transformed them from perfidious, drug-crazed killers to heroic resistance fighters. Looking at Burroughs...

... aspirations to recast society and economy. The calls for agrarian reform from the left accompanied the growing levels of organization and mobilization in the countryside during the 1930s and 1940s. When the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) came to power in April 1952, it sought to cement an alliance...