all for Abstracts/Papers: "Challenging Punishment: The War on Drugs, Race, and Public Health in the United States"
Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health
Effects of Segregation (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
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"Challenging Punishment: The War on Drugs, Race, and
Public Health"
Donna Murch, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers
University Samuel Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor of History (Columbia
University) and Sociomedical Sciences (Mailman School of Public Health)
***Please submit a detailed one to two page abstract which outlines research
methods, sources, analytic framework as well as a one page bibliography to challengingpunishment@gmail.com
by SEPTEMBER 1, 2012.*** This announcement describes a Call for Papers (CFP)
for historical essays dealing with aspects of the U.S. War on Drugs, WWII to
the present.
Ultimately, these pre-circulated papers will be presented
and workshopped at a two-part symposium to be held at Rutgers University (April
5-6, 2013) and Columbia University (October 4, 2013). Most or all of the selected essays will be
published in an edited volume or journal special edition. Essay topics may include any of the
following:
* Licit and
Illicit drugs in political, social, cultural, and economic
context (formal and informal economy): the
production, distribution, use, and
regulation of controlled substances and pharmaceuticals
* power and
inequality: race, place, class, gender, sexuality,
citizenship status and indigeneity
* public
health, medicine, and the therapeutic state (mental health,
harm reduction/minimization)
* surveillance,
screening, testing (in public health, police,
employment, social policy, etc)
* criminal
justice (policing and criminalization, carceral state, drug
courts, alternatives to incarceration and sentencing
practices)
* institutions;
social policy and practices; (dis)incentives
* social and
professional movements, "community-based," and grassroots
response
* youth
culture, street organizations, "gangs," racketeering,
organized crime, and underground economies
* history and
critical analysis of addiction and recovery (psychiatry,
neuroscience, psychology, social epidemiology)
* contemporary
and historical pathways to recovery (maintenance
programs, support groups, counseling, therapeutic
communities)
* Cold War,
foreign policy, drug interdiction and transnational
networks
* culture,
aesthetics, media, and the politics of representation
While essays should be historical, they need not be
authored by professionally trained historians. Indeed, essays from all
disciplines (including history of science, Science and Technology Studies
(STS), anthropology, sociology, policy analysis, political science, philosophy,
medicine, public health, criminology, epidemiology, etc.) are welcome. For
example, a researcher in health policy may want to submit an essay on the
history of the implementation of positive incentives for drug use cessation
(such as monetary payment, free treatment, etc.). Please submit a detailed one
to two page abstract which outlines research methods, sources, analytic
framework as well as a one page bibliography to challengingpunishment@gmail.com
by SEPTEMBER 1, 2012.