كتاب
Chasing dragons: security, identity, and illicit drugs in Canada
| العنوان: | Chasing dragons: security, identity, and illicit drugs in Canada |
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| المؤلفون: | Grayson, Kyle. |
| بيانات النشر: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2008. |
| سنة النشر: | 2008 |
| وصف مادي: | xiii, 323 p. ; 24 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Drug control -- Canada., National security -- Social aspects -- Canada., Internal security -- Social aspects -- Canada., Nationalism -- Canada., Marginality, Social -- Political aspects -- Canada., Drug abuse -- Canada., Drogue, Lutte contre la -- Canada., Sécurité nationale -- Aspect social -- Canada., Sûreté de l'État -- Aspect social -- Canada., Nationalisme -- Canada., Marginalité -- Aspect politique -- Canada., Toxicomanie -- Canada., National security -- Canada., Internal security -- Canada. |
| الوصف: | "Chasing Dragons challenges these assumptions of difference and exposes the politics of security in Canada and the policy that they make possible. Focusing on the issues surrounding illicit drugs, Kyle Grayson examines how the discourses and practices of security policy in fact contribute to the construction of Canadian national and cultural identity. This analysis is also relevant beyond Canada. A crucial contribution of this book is to identify the dangers of underestimating the centrality of race and geopolitics to civic conceptions of nationality in liberal societies." "Chasing Dragons reconsiders the meaning of security and discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics."--Jacket. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Theory/Practice of Security and Identity -- 3. Situating Canadian Geonarcotics: Canada, the United States, and the Performatives of Canadian Identity -- 4. Race and Illicit Drugs in Canada: From the Opium Den to New Drug Khatastrophes -- 5. Genealogy of the Body of the Canadian Drug User, Part I: From Criminal Addiction to Medicalization -- 6. Genealogy of the Body of the Canadian Drug User, Part II: From a National Drug Strategy to Medical Marijuana -- 7. (Geo)Politics of Dancing: Illicit Drugs and Canadian Rave Culture -- 8. Conclusion -- App. Progression of Canadian Drug Law -- Key Events. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn184738249 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-8020-9287-8 978-0-8020-9479-7 0-8020-9287-X 0-8020-9479-1 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-307) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.011470933.5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780802092878 9780802094797 080209287X 0802094791 |
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