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Seminar Programme

 

 

Week

Seminar Topic

Autumn Term 1 Introduction
2 The Global Drug Trade
3

The Early US Drug trade

4 Mid-century US Drug Control, Harry Anslinger, and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
5 Drugs and the the U.S. Counterculture
6 Reading Week - no seminar
7 U.S. Drug Policy Today: Race, Policing, and the Prison State
8 Peruvian Cocaine
9 The rise of the Colombian "cartels"
10 Radical Politics, US Foreign Policy and the Drug Trade in Colombia
Spring Term 1

Democratization and Violence in Brazil

2

Youth gangs in Central America

3

The Early Mexican trade, (1890-1960)

4 Beatniks and hippies in Mexico (1960-1970)
5

The First War on Drugs (1970-1980)

6 Reading Week - no seminar
7

The Rise of the Cartels and the Role of the State (1980-2000)

8 The Drug War (2006-2019)
9

Narcoculture

10 Civil society, democracy, and violence in Mexico
Summer Term 1 Revision
2 Revision