Transnationalizing Critical Drug Studies

This essay explores transnational STS as an analytic capable of recognizing the heterogeneities, pluralities, and relationalities drugs—legal illegal, products agriculture or laboratory—as emblematic material-semiotic actors that move between global North, West, South, East into out bodies. Critical drug studies flourishes a transdisciplinary knowledge project at nexus anthropology, history, sociology, political science, other projects. article situates critical in relation to interdisciplinary is postcolonial, postpositivist, decolonial STS. The paper responds prompt offered by organizers stream papers 2020—on “Transnational STS” for Society Social Studies Science (4S): “What becomes visible when nation-state only breaks down? What role with regard education, research activities regulation technologies contemporary period?” deals bifurcated drugs made legal illegal colonial, imperial, nation-state-based regime has policy since early twentieth century. We are witnessing reconfiguration this regulatory system within nations—making frame necessary relations facilitated policy.