Module Identifier | IP32620 | ||
Module Title | ALTERED STATES: DRUGS TRADE AND GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Stephen Hobden | ||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 16 Hours 16 x 1 hour | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 8 Hours 8 x 1 hour | ||
Assessment | Seminar presentation | Seminar Performance | 10% |
Group presentation | 1 x written up group presentation | 20% | |
Essay | 1 x 3-4,000 word essay | 70% |
This module takes a multi-disciplinary approach to place current concern about the trade in drugs into a global historical perspective. It will address a number of key issues: why was there considerable success at controlling the 'drug problem' throughout much of the early part of the twentieth century? Why did a mass market for drugs emerge during the 1960s? What are the implications of globalisation for the drug trade? To what extent have states encouraged the drug trade when it has suited their wider geo-political interests? What differences are there between the various drug producing areas of the world? What are the costs to user and producer societies of adopting a 'war against drugs'? What alternative policies could be used to minimise the 'drug problem'?