Selective Security in the War on Drugs: An Interview with Alke Jenss

20/11/2024 26 min

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NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Selective Security in the War on Drugs: An Interview with Alke Jenss” from July 5, 2023. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.

Executive Producer of the Security in Context podcast Anita Fuentes interviews author Alke Jenss about her new book, "Selective Security and the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Columbia and Mexico" (January 2023).

Dr. Alke Jenss is a senior research fellow at the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute in Freiburg, Germany. Her research is centered at the intersection of critical political economy, state theory, and urban insecurity, with a focus on Latin America, particularly Colombia and Mexico.

Selective Security and the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Columbia and Mexico: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538151099/Selective-Security-in-the-War-on-Drugs-The-Coloniality-of-State-Power-in-Colombia-and-Mexico

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