Cecilia Farfán-Méndez
Head of Security Research Programs, Center for US-Mexican Studies / University of California San Diego
The Global Initiative Network
GIN Member
Gernot Klantschnig
Associate Professor, University of Bristol
Gernot is an Associate Professor in International Criminology at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the critical study of drugs, drug trafficking and drug policy; organised crime and policing; and pharmaceutical markets and their regulation, especially in West Africa.
He is the author of Crime, Drugs and the State in Africa: The Nigerian Connection (Brill/RoL 2013) and Africa and the War on Drugs (Zed 2012, with Neil Carrier), as well as many articles in top peer-reviewed Criminology, African Studies and Drugs journals. He has recently led two externally funded major research projects on the Hidden Narratives of Transnational Organized Crime in West Africa and on Cannabis and Development in Africa.
- Klantschnig, G. et al. (eds) (2014). “Drugs in Africa: Histories and Ethnographies of Use, Trade and Control”.
- Klantschnig, G. (2013). “Crime, Drugs and the State in Africa: The Nigerian Connection. Leiden: Brill/Republic of Letters”.
- Carrier, N. & Klantschnig, G. (2012). “Africa and the War on Drugs”.
- Klantschnig, G. et al. (2024). “Beyond Africa and the War on Drugs”. In Journal on Illicit Economies and Development.
- Klantschnig, G. et al. (2023). “Rethinking Organized Crime in Africa”. In Trends in Organized Crime.
- Klantschnig, G. et al. (2023). “Resolving Friction in the Tramadol Economy in Nigeria”. In Drugs, Habits and Social Policy.
- Klantschnig, G. & Dele-Adedeji, I. (2021). “Opioid of the People: The Moral Economy of Tramadol in Lagos”. In Politique Africaine, 85-105.
- Klantschnig, G. & Huang, C. (2019). “Fake Drugs: Health, Wealth and Regulation in Nigeria”. In Review of African Political Economy, vol. 46, 442-458.
- Carrier, N. & Klantschnig, G. (2019). “Quasilegality: Khat, Cannabis and Africa’s Drug Laws”. In Third World Quarterly, vol. 39 (2), 350-365.
- Klantschnig, G. (2016). “The politics of drug control in Nigeria: exclusion, repression and obstacles to policy change“. In International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 30, 132-139.
- Klantschnig, G. et al. (2016). “Special Issue Editorial: Africa and the Drugs Trade Revisited“. In Review of African Political Economy, vol. 43 (148), 167-173.
- Carrier, N. & Klantschnig, G. (2016). “Illicit Livelihoods: Drug Crops and Development in Africa”. In Review of African Political Economy, vol. 43 (148), 174-189.
- Klantschnig, G. (2014). “Negotiating Profits and Fakeness: the China-Nigeria Trade in Pharmaceuticals”. In Politique Africaine, vol. 134, 89-110.
- Klantschnig, G. (2014). “Histories of Cannabis Use and Control in Nigeria”. In Klantschnig, Carrier and Ambler (eds). Drugs in Africa: Histories and Ethnographies of Use, Trade and Control, 69-88.
- Klantschnig, G. (2013). Editorial: “West Africa’s Drug Trade: Reasons for Concern and Hope”. In Addiction vol. 108, 1871–1872.
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