Gernot Klantschnig
Biographic Data
| ID | 153333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gernot Klantschnig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gernot |
| FAMILY NAME | Klantschnig |
| SIGNATURE | KLANTSCHNIG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2693-8227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trustwork
BACKGROUND: While trust has been shown to be important in immersive drug market research, especially when working with hard-to-reach research participants, little in-depth discussion exists on the trust building process and the dynamics that facilitate or hinder this process. In this article, we advance a conceptual framework for understanding the trust building process in fieldwork in illicit drug markets. METHODS: To develop this framework and …
Reimagining the regulation of informal pharmaceutical markets
Informal pharmaceutical markets have become an issue of major concern for international agencies and national governments, including in Nigeria, due to reports about 'fake drugs'. These concerns have at times fostered severe regulatory responses, including violent crackdowns on informal markets. This study reimagines the regulation of informal pharmaceutical markets in ways that could promote drug quality and equitable access to drugs, drawing on…
Drug policy stasis and hegemonic narratives of cannabis in Nigeria
The article highlights how hegemonic cannabis policy narratives, especially espoused by policy officials, contribute to maintaining cannabis policy stasis
Contesting Cannabis Legalization in Nigeria
This article examines narratives of cannabis legalization in Nigeria. While most existing research on cannabis legalization has concentrated on the global North, we focus on one of Africa's largest cannabis markets, as well as the views of actors heavily criminalized and excluded from policy debates. Based on in-depth interviews and long-time engagement with illicit cannabis farmers and traders, the article highlights the contestations in their h…
Beyond Africa and the War on Drugs
This article reassesses the book Africa and the War on Drugs (2012) and a related special journal issue (2016) in the light of drug market and policy developments since 2012. As part of this reassessment, we question some of the assumptions made in the book and special issue. More specifically, the article first outlines the key arguments of the book and the special issue and then sketches some of the key drug market developments on the continent…
Business as usual? Cannabis legalisation and agrarian change in Zimbabwe
This article examines the emerging legal cannabis sector in Zimbabwe since 2018, which focuses on medicinal and industrial cannabis with unlicenced uses remaining criminalised, as well as its implications for agrarian change. It shows that the formal sector is set up in a way that prioritises those with substantial resources - marginalising small-scale farmers and illicit cultivators. While this presents the risk of corporate capture, various fac…
Professor Etannibi Alemika’s Interview on Organized Crime in West Africa
Etannibi Alemika is Professor of Criminology and the Sociology of Law at the University of Jos, Nigeria. He has been a leading criminologist working on organized crime and related areas in Africa. He has published widely in these areas and has also considerable experience working with the police, prisons, intelligence and other security agencies in Nigeria and several international organizations.This interview with Professor Alemika was prepared …
Rethinking organized crime in Africa
Much of the existing research on organized crime in Africa has emphasised its development and proliferation from state and security perspectives. Such research often relies upon inflated facts for captivating public attention, is fuelled by sensationalist media reports and draws from conceptualisations that give an incomplete picture of the significance of illicit activities, both for the state and their role in enabling and sustaining people’s l…
Introduction au thème. La prohibition par le bas
du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
Chris S. Duvall, The African Roots of Marijuana
There has been a growing interest in research on psychoactive substances in recent years, in part driven by drug policy reforms in North America, Europe, and elsewhere. Drugs and their histories are being reassessed in the light of changed political realities. This has also been true for drugs in Africa – a continent that was largely ignored by historians and social scientists interested in drugs. Until recently, research on drugs in Africa was d…
Opioid of the People
Cet article propose un examen approfondi du marché illicite du tramadol à Lagos. S'appuyant sur des entretiens avec des commerçants de ce médicament et des acteurs de son contrôle, il questionne les récits moraux que les agents de l'État et du marché adoptent pour légitimer leur travail. À travers le prisme de l'économie morale, nous montrons en quoi ces récits sont liés à des luttes de pouvoir plus larges au sein du marché pharmaceutique et entr…
Fake drugs
In recent years, international organisations have warned of the lethal trade in fake drugs particularly in Africa. This article assesses how and why fake pharmaceuticals have become a problem in Nigeria and how successful the state has been at regulating it, based on archival, official and interview data. While the article shows that the early roots of this trade can be found in colonial times, its expansion and growing policy concern were driven…
Quasilegality
This article explores the concept of ‘quasilegality’ in relation to two of Africa’s drug crops: khat and cannabis. It argues that the concept is useful in understanding the two substances and their ambiguous relation to the statute books: khat being of varied and ever-changing legal status yet often treated with suspicion even where legal, while cannabis is illegal everywhere in Africa yet often seems de facto legal. The article argues that such …
The politics of drug control in Nigeria
Africa and the drugs trade revisited
In the 1990s Africa, once again, became ‘a new frontier’ – this time for the global war on drugs. Recognising the significance of the continent’s immersion in the global drug trade, this journal dedicated a pioneering special issue to the matter in 1999 (Vol. 26, No. 79). The previous year, the UN had held its General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) and published its first major report on drugs in Africa (UNDCP 1999). ROAPE’s focus on …
Illicit livelihoods
This article assesses the impact of drugs on agricultural production, trade and livelihoods more broadly by focusing on cannabis and khat in Lesotho, Nigeria and Kenya. It actively engages with research that has recently begun to explore the links between drugs and development in Africa and challenges some of its key assumptions. It argues that based on the available empirical evidence, the causalities between drugs and underdevelopment are not a…
Drugs in Africa
This cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs and Africa among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of lead
Histories of Cannabis Use and Control in Nigeria, 1927â 1967
Histories of Cannabis Use and Control in Nigeria, 1927–1967
Much of the available research on illegal drugs, such as cannabis, heroin, or cocaine, has shown a weak understanding of the drugs’historical roots in Africa and the domestic meanings of these substances and their control. This has been a result of a lack of openly available sources on these substances and also because much of this work has been conducted by international control agencies or researchers working closely with them and hence researc…
Négocier les profits et la facticité
Cet article examine le commerce de produits pharmaceutiques entre la Chine et le Nigeria. Il se penche sur le travail des acteurs économiques impliqués dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement, depuis les sites de production chinois jusqu'aux marchés de médicaments nigérians, et rend ainsi compte de la grande variété des acteurs en présence et de leurs relations différenciées avec les producteurs, les intermédiaires et l'État. L'observation des points …
Les politiques de contrôle des stupéfiants au Nigeria
Cet article examine les politiques de contrôle des stupéfiants au Nigeria en se fondant sur des sources jusqu'alors inaccessibles. Il analyse l'émergence d'une agence spécialisée dans le contrôle des stupéfiants et les transformations de la gouvernance de cette agence depuis 1989. L'accent est mis sur la perception par les agents en charge du contrôle des stupéfiants de leur travail et de leur insertion dans les réseaux de coopération internation…
Chinese and African Perspectives on China in Africa
Axel Harneit-Sievers, Stephen Marks and Sanusha Naidu, Cape Town, Dakar, Nairobi and Oxford, Pambazuka Press, 2100, xvi + 274pp. Since the highly publicised 2006 Forum on China–Africa Cooperation i
The politics of law enforcement in Nigeria
This article examines the institutional politics of law enforcement in Nigeria by focusing on illegal drug control since the mid 1980s. It assesses the available academic research on law enforcement governance, and contrasts it with an in-depth case study of drug law enforcement. The case study confirms views of the politicised nature of law enforcement. However, it goes beyond the patron-client centred approach to politics prevalent in the liter…
Oil, the Suez canal, and sterling reserves
This article assesses the importance of economic factors for the development of British Middle Eastern policy during the 1967 Arab-Israeli crisis, based on newly declassified government documents. Policy shifted from threatening unilateral action against Nasser to multilateralism and neutraliry shortly before the June war. Economic considerations will be put in the context of anti-interventionist voices in the cabinet, in the defence establishmen…
Illicit livelihoods
This article assesses the impact of drugs on agricultural production, trade and livelihoods more broadly by focusing on cannabis and khat in Lesotho, Nigeria and Kenya. It actively engages with research that has recently begun to explore the links between drugs and development in Africa and challenges some of its key assumptions. It argues that based on the available empirical evidence, the causalities between drugs and underdevelopment are not a…
Business as usual? Cannabis legalisation and agrarian change in Zimbabwe
This article examines the emerging legal cannabis sector in Zimbabwe since 2018, which focuses on medicinal and industrial cannabis with unlicenced uses remaining criminalised, as well as its implications for agrarian change. It shows that the formal sector is set up in a way that prioritises those with substantial resources - marginalising small-scale farmers and illicit cultivators. While this presents the risk of corporate capture, various fac…
Quasilegality
This article explores the concept of ‘quasilegality’ in relation to two of Africa’s drug crops: khat and cannabis. It argues that the concept is useful in understanding the two substances and their ambiguous relation to the statute books: khat being of varied and ever-changing legal status yet often treated with suspicion even where legal, while cannabis is illegal everywhere in Africa yet often seems de facto legal. The article argues that such …
Fake drugs
In recent years, international organisations have warned of the lethal trade in fake drugs particularly in Africa. This article assesses how and why fake pharmaceuticals have become a problem in Nigeria and how successful the state has been at regulating it, based on archival, official and interview data. While the article shows that the early roots of this trade can be found in colonial times, its expansion and growing policy concern were driven…
The politics of law enforcement in Nigeria
This article examines the institutional politics of law enforcement in Nigeria by focusing on illegal drug control since the mid 1980s. It assesses the available academic research on law enforcement governance, and contrasts it with an in-depth case study of drug law enforcement. The case study confirms views of the politicised nature of law enforcement. However, it goes beyond the patron-client centred approach to politics prevalent in the liter…
Opioid of the People
Cet article propose un examen approfondi du marché illicite du tramadol à Lagos. S'appuyant sur des entretiens avec des commerçants de ce médicament et des acteurs de son contrôle, il questionne les récits moraux que les agents de l'État et du marché adoptent pour légitimer leur travail. À travers le prisme de l'économie morale, nous montrons en quoi ces récits sont liés à des luttes de pouvoir plus larges au sein du marché pharmaceutique et entr…
Beyond Africa and the War on Drugs
This article reassesses the book Africa and the War on Drugs (2012) and a related special journal issue (2016) in the light of drug market and policy developments since 2012. As part of this reassessment, we question some of the assumptions made in the book and special issue. More specifically, the article first outlines the key arguments of the book and the special issue and then sketches some of the key drug market developments on the continent…
Africa and the drugs trade revisited
In the 1990s Africa, once again, became ‘a new frontier’ – this time for the global war on drugs. Recognising the significance of the continent’s immersion in the global drug trade, this journal dedicated a pioneering special issue to the matter in 1999 (Vol. 26, No. 79). The previous year, the UN had held its General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) and published its first major report on drugs in Africa (UNDCP 1999). ROAPE’s focus on …
Oil, the Suez canal, and sterling reserves
This article assesses the importance of economic factors for the development of British Middle Eastern policy during the 1967 Arab-Israeli crisis, based on newly declassified government documents. Policy shifted from threatening unilateral action against Nasser to multilateralism and neutraliry shortly before the June war. Economic considerations will be put in the context of anti-interventionist voices in the cabinet, in the defence establishmen…
Oil, the Suez canal, and sterling reserves
This article assesses the importance of economic factors for the development of British Middle Eastern policy during the 1967 Arab-Israeli crisis, based on newly declassified government documents. Policy shifted from threatening unilateral action against Nasser to multilateralism and neutraliry shortly before the June war. Economic considerations will be put in the context of anti-interventionist voices in the cabinet, in the defence establishmen…
The politics of law enforcement in Nigeria
This article examines the institutional politics of law enforcement in Nigeria by focusing on illegal drug control since the mid 1980s. It assesses the available academic research on law enforcement governance, and contrasts it with an in-depth case study of drug law enforcement. The case study confirms views of the politicised nature of law enforcement. However, it goes beyond the patron-client centred approach to politics prevalent in the liter…
Les politiques de contrôle des stupéfiants au Nigeria
Cet article examine les politiques de contrôle des stupéfiants au Nigeria en se fondant sur des sources jusqu'alors inaccessibles. Il analyse l'émergence d'une agence spécialisée dans le contrôle des stupéfiants et les transformations de la gouvernance de cette agence depuis 1989. L'accent est mis sur la perception par les agents en charge du contrôle des stupéfiants de leur travail et de leur insertion dans les réseaux de coopération internation…
Chinese and African Perspectives on China in Africa
Axel Harneit-Sievers, Stephen Marks and Sanusha Naidu, Cape Town, Dakar, Nairobi and Oxford, Pambazuka Press, 2100, xvi + 274pp. Since the highly publicised 2006 Forum on China–Africa Cooperation i
Drugs in Africa
This cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs and Africa among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of lead
Histories of Cannabis Use and Control in Nigeria, 1927â 1967
Histories of Cannabis Use and Control in Nigeria, 1927–1967
Much of the available research on illegal drugs, such as cannabis, heroin, or cocaine, has shown a weak understanding of the drugs’historical roots in Africa and the domestic meanings of these substances and their control. This has been a result of a lack of openly available sources on these substances and also because much of this work has been conducted by international control agencies or researchers working closely with them and hence researc…
Négocier les profits et la facticité
Cet article examine le commerce de produits pharmaceutiques entre la Chine et le Nigeria. Il se penche sur le travail des acteurs économiques impliqués dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement, depuis les sites de production chinois jusqu'aux marchés de médicaments nigérians, et rend ainsi compte de la grande variété des acteurs en présence et de leurs relations différenciées avec les producteurs, les intermédiaires et l'État. L'observation des points …
The politics of drug control in Nigeria
Africa and the drugs trade revisited
In the 1990s Africa, once again, became ‘a new frontier’ – this time for the global war on drugs. Recognising the significance of the continent’s immersion in the global drug trade, this journal dedicated a pioneering special issue to the matter in 1999 (Vol. 26, No. 79). The previous year, the UN had held its General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) and published its first major report on drugs in Africa (UNDCP 1999). ROAPE’s focus on …
Illicit livelihoods
This article assesses the impact of drugs on agricultural production, trade and livelihoods more broadly by focusing on cannabis and khat in Lesotho, Nigeria and Kenya. It actively engages with research that has recently begun to explore the links between drugs and development in Africa and challenges some of its key assumptions. It argues that based on the available empirical evidence, the causalities between drugs and underdevelopment are not a…
Fake drugs
In recent years, international organisations have warned of the lethal trade in fake drugs particularly in Africa. This article assesses how and why fake pharmaceuticals have become a problem in Nigeria and how successful the state has been at regulating it, based on archival, official and interview data. While the article shows that the early roots of this trade can be found in colonial times, its expansion and growing policy concern were driven…
Quasilegality
This article explores the concept of ‘quasilegality’ in relation to two of Africa’s drug crops: khat and cannabis. It argues that the concept is useful in understanding the two substances and their ambiguous relation to the statute books: khat being of varied and ever-changing legal status yet often treated with suspicion even where legal, while cannabis is illegal everywhere in Africa yet often seems de facto legal. The article argues that such …
Introduction au thème. La prohibition par le bas
du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
Chris S. Duvall, The African Roots of Marijuana
There has been a growing interest in research on psychoactive substances in recent years, in part driven by drug policy reforms in North America, Europe, and elsewhere. Drugs and their histories are being reassessed in the light of changed political realities. This has also been true for drugs in Africa – a continent that was largely ignored by historians and social scientists interested in drugs. Until recently, research on drugs in Africa was d…
Opioid of the People
Cet article propose un examen approfondi du marché illicite du tramadol à Lagos. S'appuyant sur des entretiens avec des commerçants de ce médicament et des acteurs de son contrôle, il questionne les récits moraux que les agents de l'État et du marché adoptent pour légitimer leur travail. À travers le prisme de l'économie morale, nous montrons en quoi ces récits sont liés à des luttes de pouvoir plus larges au sein du marché pharmaceutique et entr…
Professor Etannibi Alemika’s Interview on Organized Crime in West Africa
Etannibi Alemika is Professor of Criminology and the Sociology of Law at the University of Jos, Nigeria. He has been a leading criminologist working on organized crime and related areas in Africa. He has published widely in these areas and has also considerable experience working with the police, prisons, intelligence and other security agencies in Nigeria and several international organizations.This interview with Professor Alemika was prepared …
Rethinking organized crime in Africa
Much of the existing research on organized crime in Africa has emphasised its development and proliferation from state and security perspectives. Such research often relies upon inflated facts for captivating public attention, is fuelled by sensationalist media reports and draws from conceptualisations that give an incomplete picture of the significance of illicit activities, both for the state and their role in enabling and sustaining people’s l…
Beyond Africa and the War on Drugs
This article reassesses the book Africa and the War on Drugs (2012) and a related special journal issue (2016) in the light of drug market and policy developments since 2012. As part of this reassessment, we question some of the assumptions made in the book and special issue. More specifically, the article first outlines the key arguments of the book and the special issue and then sketches some of the key drug market developments on the continent…
Business as usual? Cannabis legalisation and agrarian change in Zimbabwe
This article examines the emerging legal cannabis sector in Zimbabwe since 2018, which focuses on medicinal and industrial cannabis with unlicenced uses remaining criminalised, as well as its implications for agrarian change. It shows that the formal sector is set up in a way that prioritises those with substantial resources - marginalising small-scale farmers and illicit cultivators. While this presents the risk of corporate capture, various fac…
Drug policy stasis and hegemonic narratives of cannabis in Nigeria
The article highlights how hegemonic cannabis policy narratives, especially espoused by policy officials, contribute to maintaining cannabis policy stasis
Contesting Cannabis Legalization in Nigeria
This article examines narratives of cannabis legalization in Nigeria. While most existing research on cannabis legalization has concentrated on the global North, we focus on one of Africa's largest cannabis markets, as well as the views of actors heavily criminalized and excluded from policy debates. Based on in-depth interviews and long-time engagement with illicit cannabis farmers and traders, the article highlights the contestations in their h…
Trustwork
BACKGROUND: While trust has been shown to be important in immersive drug market research, especially when working with hard-to-reach research participants, little in-depth discussion exists on the trust building process and the dynamics that facilitate or hinder this process. In this article, we advance a conceptual framework for understanding the trust building process in fieldwork in illicit drug markets. METHODS: To develop this framework and …
Reimagining the regulation of informal pharmaceutical markets
Informal pharmaceutical markets have become an issue of major concern for international agencies and national governments, including in Nigeria, due to reports about 'fake drugs'. These concerns have at times fostered severe regulatory responses, including violent crackdowns on informal markets. This study reimagines the regulation of informal pharmaceutical markets in ways that could promote drug quality and equitable access to drugs, drawing on…
Political science (20 works) · Economics (10 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (9 works) · Cannabis (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works)