Table of Contents

1. Drugs, law, people, place and the state: ongoing regulation, resistance and change

Stewart Williams and Barney Warf

2. Drug laws, bioprospecting and the agricultural heritage

Chris S. Duvall

3. The myth of the narco-state

Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy

4. From raks to ayran: regulating the place and practice of drinking in Turkey

Emine Ö. Evered and Kyle T. Evered

5. Neoliberalism and the alcohol industry in Ireland

Julien Mercille

6. Colliding intervention in the spatial management of street-based injecting and drug-related litter within settings of public convenience (UK)

Stephen Parkin

7. Space, scale and jurisdiction in health service provision for drug users: the legal geography of a supervised injecting facility

Stewart Williams

8. Political struggles on a frontier of harm reduction drug policy: geographies of constrained policy mobility

Andrew Longhurst and Eugene McCann

9. Mobilizing drug policy activism: conferences, convergence spaces and ephemeral fixtures in social movement mobilization

Cristina Temenos

10. Conclusions

Barney Warf and Stewart Williams

About the Author

Stewart Williams is interested in matters of risk, regulation and resilience from the perspective of public policy and spatial planning. He has combined critical social theory with mixed research methods to analyse housing and homelessness, climate change and disaster management, community decline and regeneration, and drug production and consumption.





Barney Warf’s research concerns producer services and telecommunications, particularly the geographies of the internet, including the digital divide, e-government, and internet censorship. He examines these topics, and such others as political geography, religion, cosmopolitanism, and corruption, through the lens of political economy and social theory.