Brad Burgebburge@ucsd.edu, http://bananapeelproject.org/
B.A., Psychology and Communication, Stanford University, 2005
M.A., Communication, University of California, San Diego, 2009
Research Questions:
What is it about drugs that have made them such effective and dangerous tools for political change? How do they fit in the history of personal technologies? What are the historical and genealogical origins of addiction and dependence? How has knowledge about drugs helped to complicate the boundaries between self and other, nature and culture, body and mind? What theoretical and methodological resources can we use to understand the politics of psychopharmacology?
Research Strategies:
Identifying the historical and philosophical relationship between drugs and:
• Science, technology, and medicine
• Revolution and political change
• Governmentality
• Ethics and law
Current Research:
• The politics of medical marijuana
• The history and politics of marijuana science
• Opium prohibition in 19th-century England and the United States
Brad is also a part of UCSD's Science Studies Program (http://sciencestudies.ucsd.edu/).
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Department of Communication
University of California San Diego
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La Jolla
CA 92093-0503
Phone: (858) 534.4410
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