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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Chinese Connection -- 2. The Drug Market in Burma -- 3. Wholesale Heroin Trafficking -- 4. Low-Level Heroin Trafficking -- 5. The Social Organization of Entrepreneurial Traffickers -- 6. The Retail Heroin Market in China -- 7. Women in the Heroin Trade -- 8. Drug Treatment with a Chinese Characteristic -- 9. Combating Drug Trafficking -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors

10 of the 24 publications covered by this survey have been launched within the last 30 yrs, & this period has witnessed the establishment of the main soc sci teaching & res centers in Mexico. Only 3 of the periodicals studied are published by private firms-the others are maintained, organized & published by instit's which are associated with the Mexican gov or are dependent on inter-Amer bodies. Editorial arrangements are described; most publications have a chief Ed, an editorial board & editorial consultants. Responsibility for content is delineated. The instit'al nature of these publications should be borne in mind when analyzing their financing. In many cases financing of the publishing costs is not considered recoverable, as shown by the fact that 6 of these publications are distributed free of charge. Space allocated to articles accounts for an mean/average of 65% of the total/sum space, but this varies between 20% & 100%. Re coverage, the periodicals are classified according to the general nature of the material they publish. Most Mexican soc sci periodicals are published exclusively in Spanish. Mexican periodicals do not yet provide adequate information on developments abroad in the soc sci's. Apart from 1 case, these periodicals have an mean/average circulation of barely 2,140 per issue. Most of them are directed primarily to specialists; they are channels of regular COMM between soc sci'ts. The most obvious shortcoming is seen to be the lack of specialization in the various branches of the soc sci's. E. Weiman.

What are some of the most distinctive features of the crisis characterising the social sciences learning today? Can a crisis of this deep-rooted and extremely wide-ranging nature be delimitated to a few specific areas? Can the social sciences diverse dilemmas be reduced to the feature of crisis alone? This book argues that the social sciences are in a deep state of crisis. Kléber Ghimire analyzes how some of the basic problems began from the very inception: uncritical use of empiricism and experimentation methods emulating the natural sciences, internal fragmentation of knowledge along narrow disciplinary lines, and near-exclusive emphasis on the experience of industrial societies. As these difficulties persist, more recent evolutions have brought additional troubles. With a focus on Europe, North America and Asia, Kléber Ghimire examines the effects of university reforms that give prominence to expertise-oriented research, economic rationality and occupational skill development, leading to a widespread marginalisation of the social and human studies. The book ends with a call to reflect upon opening a new horizon for these fields of learning, especially by inventing a new era of social sciences pedagogy, leaving natural sciences for humanities and recognizing the value of culture as a crucial reservoir of social knowledge.

Knowledge is a commodity and knowledge production does not occur in a geo-political vacuum. With respect to this, it has to be argued that neo-imperialism involves economic and knowledge flows across continuous space, which is transnational and distinct from the old forms of colonialism which were based on country-to-country occupation. In the context of contemporary geo-politics, these conditions render territorial terrain as less important than discursive terrain (Lo 2011). So, how is global knowledge in the social sciences (and more specifically in criminology) produced and shared? Where does this production take place? Who are the producers? Whose experiences and whose voices are reflected in dominant academic discourses? How is knowledge disseminated and who gets access to it? These are some of the questions that the project of southern criminology seeks to tackle.
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