Introduction

• Spirit and being: interdisciplinary reflections on drugs across history and politics

Maziyar Ghiabi

Pages: 207-217

History and genealogy of drugs

• Decolonising drugs in Asia: the case of cocaine in colonial India

James Mills

Pages: 218-231

• A diplomatic failure: the Mexican role in the demise of the 1940 Reglamento Federal de Toxicomanías

Isaac Campos

Pages: 232-247

• Drugs of choice, drugs of change: Egyptian consumption habits since the 1920s

Philip Robins

Pages: 248-260

Ethnographies of drugs

• Drug booms and busts: poverty and prosperity in a Nicaraguan narco-barrio

Dennis Rodgers

Pages: 261-276

• Maintaining disorder: the micropolitics of drugs policy in Iran

Maziyar Ghiabi

Pages: 277-297

• ‘We Will Revive’: addiction, spiritual warfare, and recovery in Latin America’s cocaine production zone

Pablo Seward Delaporte

Pages: 298-313

Comparative perspectives on drug wars

• Fighting crime and maintaining order: shared worldviews of civilian and military elites in Brazil and Mexico

Anaís M. Passos

Pages: 314-330

• Turning deserts into flowers: settlement and poppy cultivation in southwest Afghanistan

David Mansfield

Pages: 331-349

• Quasilegality: khat, cannabis and Africa’s drug laws

Neil Carrier& Gernot Klantschnig

Pages: 350-365

• Why do South-east Asian states choose to suppress opium? A cross-case comparison

James Windle

Pages: 366-384

Viewpoint

• Decolonising drug studies in an era of predatory accumulation

Philippe Bourgois

Pages: 385-398