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Meth wars : police, media, power / Travis Linnemann.
LIBRA HV5822.A5 L56 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linnemann, Travis, author.
- Series:
- Alternative criminology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Methamphetamine abuse--Social aspects--United States.
- Methamphetamine abuse.
- Methamphetamine abuse--Press coverage--United States.
- Minorities--Drug use--United States.
- Minorities.
- Police--United States.
- Police.
- Minorities--Drug use.
- Press coverage.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Drug control--United States.
- Drug control.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Encountered in daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns, popular television and film and the political work of police and politicians, the drug methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the public's imagination. In Meth Wars, Travis Linnemann maps dynamic systems of power that reaffirm race and class hierarchies, advance political agendas, and produce everyday understandings of life in the rural United States. From the hit television series Breaking Bad to billboards and newspapers littered with the mug shots of suspected meth users to ethnographic accounts of small town police to the world-wide hunts for "narcoterrorists" such as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, Linnemann draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary scholarship. Viewing the wars on drugs and terror as entwined and inseparable, Meth Wars implicates small-town police and counter-narcoterror agents alike in a singular police project in service to the broader economic and geostrategic interests of the United States. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the methamphetamine imaginary
- Walter White's death wish
- This is your race on meth
- Governing through meth
- The war out there
- Imagining methland
- Drug war, terror war, street corner, battlefield
- Epilogue: endless (drug) war.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479878697
- 1479878693
- 9781479800025
- 1479800023
- OCLC:
- 946161236
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