Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Drug War"”.
-
Through the Gateway: Marijuana Production, Governance, and the Drug War Détente
… the greyest of grey market zones. Federal anti-drug laws and supply-side tactics have intensively targeted them even as marijuana has become more licit. In this legally unstable environment, marijuana patient-cultivators and underground producers have articulated and asserted themselves …
-
Born of Coatlicue: Literary Inscriptions of Women in Violence from the Mexican Revolution to the Drug War
… explores how women use their agency to enact the Drug War violence, or to report about it though the narconovela. Whether they seek to perpetuate drug crime and profit from it, or denounce it, their stories deserve to be told. These novels highlight female positions in the narcotics trade, in …
-
The constitutional case for legal regulation of illicit drugs in South Africa
… of this paper is that South Africa's current drug policy is unsound and unconstitutional. The legislative and policy framework is based on the prohibition of certain psychoactive substances deemed illicit and the criminalisation of their production, distribution and use, to wit: prohibition …
-
Essays in economic development and political economy
… entitled "Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War" examines how drug traffickers' economic objectives influence the direct and spillover effects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico during the past five years, claiming …
-
Violence, Causality, and the Emergence of Mexico's General Law on Forced Disappearance
… years of extreme violence coinciding with the drug war, more than 35,000 people were considered officially disappeared. Today, it is widely suspected this figure surpasses 70,000. The advent of the General Law followed the emblematic events of the Ayotzinapa tragedy in 2014, which exposed the …
-
“An Exercise in International Extortion”: Operation “Intercept” and Nixon’s 1969 War on Drugs
… M. Nixon inherited a nation in crisis with drugs playing a central role. At a campaign stop a few months earlier, Nixon announced to a packed convention center in Anaheim, CA, that if elected president he would end the flow of the illicit drugs coming into the United States “decimating a …
-
Middle Class Guerrilas: The Failure of the Mexican Student Revolutionaries to Build a Mass Movement
The Mexican Dirty War, which lasted almost two decades from its onset in the middle of the 1960s to its conclusion during the early 1980s, is a period of Mexican history that has received considerably less attention than the revolution that began the century and the drug war which ushered in the …
-
Crafting Cannabinoid Capitalism: Health, Sustainability, and Regeneration in the United States
… and medicine, I show how the logics of the war on drugs— rooted in carcerality, settler colonialism, and plantation agriculture—structurally and affectively persist in the socalled “post-prohibition” era, frustrating farmers’ efforts to resist monopolization and dispossession. Throughout, I …
-
The Verging Cities
… the violence of the cities from femicide to drug cartels and the effects this has on the speaker. The third is an extended poem that lyrically examines marriages and immigration through traditional epithalamia. The fourth becomes explicitly about the two cities and explores themes built …