I wrote this book for several reasons. Firstly, my main concern was to engage in a study of politics and power which went beyond the classical focus on the state as the all-powerful agent of enforcement and intervention in people’s lives. I wanted to explore th..
Maziyar Ghiabi
Maziyar Ghiabi is a transdisciplinary researcher who works on issues related to the politics of health and human security, engaging with scholarship emerging from medical anthropology (addicted lives), state formation, and modern social history. So far, his work has concerned Iran and the so-called “Middle East” (West Asia and North Africa), but he has also been keen to explore a variety of cases across the Global South.
Ghiabi is currently on a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project on “Drugs and (Dis)Order” which looks at building sustainable peacetime economies in the aftermath of war in Colombia, Afghanistan, and Myanmar. Prior to this post, he was a Lecturer in Modern Iranian History at the University of Oxford and Wadham College, and a postdoctoral fellow at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Ghiabi obtained his doctorate at Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations, funded by Wellcome Trust Society & Ethics.
Beside Drugs Politics, he has edited Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South (Routledge, 2018) and has published a variety of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in Third World Quarterly, Middle East Critique, Iranian Studies, Critique Internationale and other international journals. He sits on the Editorial Board of Third World Quarterly, the journal of Social History of Drugs and Alcohol, and Journal of Illicit Economies and Development.