Seminar Programme
Week |
Seminar Topic |
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| Autumn Term | 1 | Introduction |
| 2 | The Global Drug Trade | |
| 3 |
The Early US Drug trade |
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| 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 |
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| 3 |
The Early Mexican trade, (1890-1960) |
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| 4 | Beatniks and hippies in Mexico (1960-1970) | |
| 5 |
The First War on Drugs (1970-1980) |
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| 6 | Reading Week - no seminar | |
| 7 |
The Rise of the Cartels and the Role of the State (1980-2000) |
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| 8 | The Drug War (2006-2019) | |
| 9 |
Narcoculture |
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| 10 | Civil society, democracy, and violence in Mexico | |
| Summer Term | 1 | Revision |
| 2 | Revision |