Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State

Stewart Williams is interested in matters of risk, regulation and resilience from the perspective of public policy and spatial planning. He has combined critical social theory with mixed research methods to analyse housing and homelessness, climate change and disaster management, community decline and regeneration, and drug production and consumption.Barney Warf’s research concerns producer services and telecommunications, particularly the geographies of the internet, including the digital divide, e-government, and internet censorship. He examines these topics, and such others as political geography, religion, cosmopolitanism, and corruption, through the lens of political economy and social theory.

• 1. Drugs, law, people, place and the state: ongoing regulation, resistance and changeStewart Williams and Barney Warf2. Drug laws, bioprospecting and the agricultural heritageChris S. Duvall3. The myth of the narco-statePierre-Arnaud Chouvy4. From raks to ayran: regulating the place and practice of drinking in TurkeyEmine Ö. Evered and Kyle T. Evered5. Neoliberalism and the alcohol industry in IrelandJulien Mercille6. Colliding intervention in the spatial management of street-based injecting and drug-related litter within settings of public convenience (UK)Stephen Parkin7. Space, scale and jurisdiction in health service provision for drug users: the legal geography of a supervised injecting facilityStewart Williams8. Political struggles on a frontier of harm reduction drug policy: geographies of constrained policy mobilityAndrew Longhurst and Eugene McCann9. Mobilizing drug policy activism: conferences, convergence spaces and ephemeral fixtures in social movement mobilizationCristina Temenos10. ConclusionsBarney Warf and Stewart Williams