Keywords
risk
governmentality
harm
biopolitics
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Abstract
This article addresses the issue of risk in the field of drugs from a genealogical and discursive perspective, using the concept of governmentality as a category of analysis. The meaning, use and connotations of risk in the regulation of drugs in Chile between 1990 and 2013 are examined within this context. Although this is primarily a socio-historical construct, it has usually been conceived in ahistorical terms and expressed in a depoliticized speech. This examination does not limit risk management to the sphere of the State, but rather inserts it into the structural mesh of the government of a State and the techniques of government themselves. Thus, focus is it shifted from the problem of drugs to the construct of drugs as an issue. In this regard, the analytical tools used enable visualizing the ways in which the so-called drug problem has become an objective of government.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.