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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). Faculdade de Ciências Sociais (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Bachelor in Social Sciences (PUC-SP, 2001), Master in International Relations (PPGRI San Tiago Dantas Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP, 2005), PhD in Political Science/International Politics (UNICAMP, 2011) and Associate Professor in international relations with the thesis Global Cannabis Co.: fissured consensus - a study of international relations on the drugs-capitalism nexus (PUC-SP, Brazil, 2022). He is currently an associate professor in the area of International Relations at PUC-SP (since 2007), a professor at the San Tiago Dantas Postgraduate Program in International Relations UNESP, UNICAMP and PUC-SP (PPGRI) (since 2011) and a professor at the Masters in Global Governance and International Policy Formulation at PUC-SP (since 2018). He is a member of the international network Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime in the field Drug Policy Reform (since 2023), was an ad hoc researcher at the Brazilian Drug Policy Platform (2021) and a consultant at the National Secretariat for Drug Policies (SENAD) of the Ministry of Justice (2023). He was a visiting researcher at the criminology department at the University of Ottawa (Canada 2017-2018) and at the Drugs and Democracy Program at the Transnational Institute (Netherlands, 2022). He has been part of the editorial board of Revista Platô: Drogas e Políticas since 2017. He is coordinator of the International Research Group on Drug Policies of the Center for Transnational Security Studies (NETS-www.pucsp.br/nets). He was coordinator of the undergraduate course in International Relations at PUC-SP (2012-2016), editor of Revista Carta Internacional (2011-2015) and member of the board of directors of the Brazilian Association of International Relations (2011-2015). He was one of the coordinators of the workshop held at the University of London to create a Global Network on Emerging Drug Markets (2023). He has already obtained funding from CNPq, FAPESP, Open Society Foundations and is currently a CNPq Productivity Fellow PQ2 (2023-2025). He has worked on the international dimension of drug control, with emphasis on the evolution of recent regulations on the cannabis market on the American continent. His latest productions include: Regulation of cannabis for medicinal purposes in Brazil: options arising from international experiences (SENAD, 2023); The international advancement of cannabis regulation and the unjustifiable Brazilian delay (IBCCRIM Bulletin, 31:369, 2023); Corporate Capture of the Latin American Medical Cannabis Market (Transnational Institute, Drug Policy Briefing, 53, 2022); From Devils Herb to Panacea? Biopolitics of Cannabis in Brazil (with Thiago Rodrigues; Cadernos de Campo USP, 2022); Drug control, violence and capitalism in an international perspective: an analytical framework (Critical Military Studies, 2021); The Politics of Evaluating Cannabis Regulation in Uruguay (with Maurício Fiore; Novos Estudos. CEBRAP, 2021). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Cannabis, a psychoactive plant proscribed by the international drug control system throughout the 20th century, has become a legal commodity in several countries and federative entities, mainly on the American continent, whether for industrial, medicinal, or even recreational purposes. This change in the legal status of cannabis has led to the emergence of a billion-dollar international m…
The project examines the dynamics of subaltern labor in the emerging transnational legal cannabis market, focusing on the relationships between the Global South and the Global North. As cannabis legalization progresses in various jurisdictions, large transnational corporations benefit from the expansion of this market, consolidating a new global division of labor. Workers from the Global …
The research activities that Professor Kojo Koram will contribute to aim to critically examine the practices and strategies of cannabis corporations in contexts of limited regulation, with a specific focus on the medicinal and export cultivation sectors. The study will concentrate on selected countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa, regions where cannabis regulations are at …
Since 1925, cannabis has become a focus of the multilateral drug control. Such control over cannabis evolved, in the second half of the 20th century, into a global ban of the plant. This centuries-old international framework of prohibition, however, has undergone important changes in recent years. Several countries or federative units around the world have eased restrictions on its indust…
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Just over a decade ago, through cannabis legalization processes, we have witnessed changes in drug policies occurring in various parts of the world, especially in the Americas. Considering the centrality of the security aspect and the long process of securitization of psychoactive substances, this investigation aims to analyze whether the process of cannabis legalization in Canada, interp…
The War on Drugs promoted by the United States has shaped the understanding of the legal and illegal circuits of psychoactive substances in Latin America, legitimizing the use of violence to guarantee the exclusivity of the legal field for the capitalist market. The consequence was the immediate criminalization of Andean cultural practices involving the coca leaf and, especially, the marg…
The War on Drugs policy as a securitarian practice in Brazil functions as a bureaucratic-repressive instrument, disproportionately developed in an attempt to combat drug trafficking and deal with individuals involved in situations of marginalization. Incorporated in Brazil during the 1990s, the policies and guidelines underlying the War on Drugs reinforce inequalities while perpetuating a…
The importance of the international dimension has increased in crime and crime control studies since the 1990s. This trend, however, is not verified in the analyzes carried out by Brazilian researchers, particularly regarding to the international dynamics of state and non-state violence cycle related to the production, trade and consumption of drugs currently considered illegal, despite t…
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