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1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-307) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Drug control -- Canada.
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Drug control. |
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Canada. |
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National security -- Canada.
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National security. |
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Internal security -- Canada.
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Internal security. |
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Nationalism -- Canada.
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Nationalism. |
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Marginality, Social -- Political aspects -- Canada.
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Marginality, Social -- Political aspects. |
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Marginality, Social. |
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Drug abuse -- Canada.
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Drug abuse. |
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Drug control Canada |
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National security Social aspects Canada |
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Internal security Social aspects Canada |
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Nationalism Canada |
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Marginality, Social Political aspects Canada |
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Drug abuse Canada |
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Multi-User. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grayson, Kyle, 1975- Chasing dragons. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008297687 (OCoLC)184738249 |
| ISBN |
9781442687592 (electronic book) |
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1442687592 (electronic book) |
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9780802092878 (bound) |
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080209287X (bound) |
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9780802094797 (paperback) |
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0802094791 (paperback) |
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