{"product_id":"drugs-violence-and-latin-america-joseph-patteson-9783030689230","title":"Drugs, Violence and Latin America: Global Psychotropy and Culture","description":"This book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic \"sobriety\" in these works or discounted them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention, \u003ci\u003eDrugs, Violence, and Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates how such work may reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication. Theorizing a \"dialectics of intoxication\" that illustrates how psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for social control within both licit and illicit economies. A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Patteson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030689239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030689230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d","brand":"Joseph Patteson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991062315263,"sku":"9783030689230","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_033ed6f2-9367-4e8e-8bdc-a6575653cac9.jpg?v=1683308221","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/drugs-violence-and-latin-america-joseph-patteson-9783030689230","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}