Coloniality, race and drug policy - Contemporary Drug Problems special issue: Call for papers

This special issue will explore research that mobilises southern epistemologies and theories of coloniality and race to interrogate and reimagine the field of drug studies. Contributions are invited to examine how contemporary forms of drug governance, policy, and research practice are shaped by ongoing colonial logics and racial hierarchies.

The issue particularly welcomes work locally grounded yet globally aware of the ongoing entanglements of colonial power and knowledge, including First Nations sovereignty and knowledge, African anti-colonial traditions, South Asian critiques of empire, decolonial and anti-imperial scholarship from South-West Asia and North Africa, Latin America decolonial thought, and other situated approaches that engage with coloniality in thought and practice.