War on Drugs

As part of the video series "In Dialogue" of the network "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict", interviews with experts dealing with (de)colonial and postcolonial approaches to peace and conflict are published. The dialogues problematize issues of knowledge production related to the study of violence, peacebuilding, critical security studies, memory, and transformative justice in postcolonial contexts. One of the main goals is to understand the epistemic hierarchies in which academic knowledge production is embedded, while opening a space for dialogue between different epistemologies (forms and ways of knowing) both within and outside academia.

In her new video Alke Jenss provides an overview of her recent book „Selective Security in the War on DrugsThe Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico.“ Her work interweaves and expands debates on authoritarian neoliberalism and the coloniality of state power. In doing so, it provides a unique theoretical perspective to study state security practices in the context of the so-called war on drugs in Latin America.