Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 316
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108475457
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Drugs Politics is based on six years of research in Iran (2012-18), working in archives, interviewing governmental officials, and conducting fieldwork in conventionally off-limits impoverished communities. Drugs examines the Islamic Republic’s crisis management strategy, taking illicit drugs and addiction as a case study of crisis as a political affair distinct from religion. Firstly, the state adopts policies informed by expert knowledge, contextualised economically and historically; secondly, response to crises furthers state formation and the evolution of ‘harm reduction’ governance; thirdly, the state mobilises grassroots organisations rather than resorting to state-led security intervention, creating a new paradigm of government by crisis.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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