Title Chasing dragons : security, identity, and illicit drugs in Canada / Kyle Grayson

Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages) Contents 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 Summary "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 Analysis Drug control Canada National security Social aspects Canada Internal security Social aspects Canada Nationalism Canada Marginality, Social Political aspects Canada Drug abuse Canada Multi-User Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-307) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Drug control -- Canada National security -- Canada Internal security -- Canada Nationalism -- Canada Marginality, Social -- Political aspects -- Canada Drug abuse -- Canada National security -- Social aspects -- Canada Internal security -- Social aspects -- Canada BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Drug abuse Drug control Internal security Marginality, Social -- Political aspects National security Nationalism Rauschgift Drogenpolitik Drogenszene Culturele identiteit. Nationale identiteit. Veiligheidspolitiek. Drugsbeleid. Drugsgebruik. Subcultuur. Canada Kanada Canada. Form Electronic book LC no. 2008297687 ISBN 9781442687592 1442687592 9781442691704 1442691700

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