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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 327–348.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of the 235,000 murders created by the “war on drugs” since 2006 is that the deaths consist of “narcos killing each other off.” However, as a result of the profound interlocking of legal and illegal sectors, most forms of livelihood in the borderlands are potentially implicated in the drug economy. Therefore...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 493–514.
Published: 01 September 2017
... is how pastors insist that photographs and videos allow the faithful to read users for signs of the soul. Contributing to the criminalization and mass incarceration of drug users, these images organize the outer edges of today’s war on drugs. The pastor eventually edited this video down from one minute...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 441–464.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... The instability of autonomy came to a head, the author argues, during the years when Mexico’s so-called war on drug trafficking was at its worst. Tracking tropes of the heteronomy of both “I” and “we,” the essay reveals how this period took shape, finally, as a public crisis of agency. Copyright © 2018 Duke...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 155–162.
Published: 01 January 1992
... package and track it as regulated medical waste.
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Just Say No10 Contendere:
The Drug War on Civil Liberties*
Dan Baum
Of all wars the United...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 175–209.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of warring drug trade factions spreading
unchecked violence form the backdrop of the hypervisibility of the excluded. This
hypervisibility performs a pedagogical role, for the excluded must exercise their
powers of self-fashioning and furnish...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 January 2010
... be given the standard treatments. No
one would know which group they were in until the end of the trial, at which time
the survivors would be counted, the side effects measured, and a decision made
about whether to take the drug to the next stage of testing.
Among the questions appears one...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 219–227.
Published: 01 May 2009
...
war, the major metropolitan areas of Brazil witness violence usually attributed to
social inequity, poor governance, and conflict wrought by the drug trade. Since the
1980s increases in social violence produced by the globalized drug trade...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 319–341.
Published: 01 May 1994
..." because they might be paying workers cheap wages, making
them work long hours . . .
JT: If a businessman is a . . . it's a drug war within itself! Instead of it being
drugs, they're going for other products and they're concerned with their com-
pany outselling another company, no matter what...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 365–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of a local drug trafficking group to invade the empty rooms of the Nelson Mandela Occupation in downtown Rio de Janeiro, a common practice in the dispute for housing. However, suddenly there was a transformation in the logic of invasions. Rooms where single men lived became targets of dispute generating...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 January 2018
... all too well a not- so- distant past. That was when a different kind of faithful during a different kind of war disappeared labor activists, union organizers, and university professors ( Erlick 2004) . The fear is only heightened with the added knowledge that these drug rehabilitation centers...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): i–iii.
Published: 01 May 1990
...
grasshopper named Kickback. Kickback, a member of the Insecticon
swarm along with Bombshell and Shrapnel, moves from being a 'creepy
creature' to being a 'terrifying reigning robot'. His function is espionage,
and he costs only fifty dollars. The Cold War sub-text here needs little elab-
oration...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 197–219.
Published: 01 January 2007
... 128: 58 – 60.
Denny, Charlotte, and James Meek. 2001. Drug giants made to swallow bitter pill.
Guardian (London), April 19, 2001.
Farmer, Paul. 2003. Pathologies of power: Health, human rights, and the new
war on the poor. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Foucault, Michel. 1978...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 229–243.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to
be trained in the same manner that war correspondents are trained.
BJ: Violence is all-pervasive in Brazilian cities. But the sensation of fear and vio-
lence is also spurred by the media. In fact, there seems to be an avid dispute for
media visibility by the drug dealers, favela dwellers...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 475–497.
Published: 01 September 2016
... in Berlin to mid-twentieth-century randomized controlled studies of antibiotics in Britain and bed rest in India. Given the persistence of tuberculosis into the present and its evolution into drug-resistant forms, it becomes important to reconsider the limits and possibilities of cure in biomedicine...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 67–88.
Published: 01 January 2010
... experience in some of Central
America’s longest and bloodiest civil wars. In Guatemala, they smuggle drugs,
participate in human trafficking, and control prison systems, all while state offi-
cials offer failed responses to their growing threat. More immediate to Gustavo’s
I presented versions...
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Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 71–88.
Published: 01 January 1991
... and ourselves.
The “military option” in foreign affairs was the only real option to us. Simi-
larly, the only solution to mass drug abuse was “the war on drugs.” Violent
confrontation was the fundamental principle of existence. Only violent con-
frontation could make our lives meaningful. Only violent...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 407–429.
Published: 01 September 2004
... vendors.
It is, of course, always possible to buy a packet of drugs or arrange a larger quan-
tity. The King’s Den, a bar whose second-story veranda overlooks the street, usu-
ally hosts the more prominent “middlemen,” whose drivers pull up...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 41–64.
Published: 01 May 1990
..., especially after Charlie
Francis, Johnson's coach, took the stand and calmly detailed the long his-
tory of drug use by athletes in his Mazda Track Club.
"What informants Joe Valachi did to the mob and Daniel Ellsberg did to
the Vietnam war, Charlie Francis yesterday did to sport." So Toronto Star...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 157–184.
Published: 01 January 2012
... : James Currey . DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) . 2009 . 2008–2009 annual report . Geneva : DNDi . www.dndi.org/images/stories/pdf_aboutDNDi/ar2009.pdf . Dolan Catherine Rajak Dinah . 2011 . Introduction: Ethnographies of corporate ethicizing . Focaal—Journal...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 119–120.
Published: 01 May 1991
..., drugs and
Public Culmre 119 VoL 3. No. 2 Spring 1991
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staggering crime statistics. The airline industry and banking institutions of
the United States fall into further disrepair. But because of the war, deci...
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