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 |