Recent books, academic publications and media articles.
BOOKS
In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces the tale of how after the end of the British empire an interconnected group of well-heeled British intellectuals, politicians, accountants and lawyers offshored their capital, seized assets and saddled debt in former ‘dependencies’.
This collection examines how the War on Drugs has reproduced racial and ethnic divisions across the world. Bringing together experts from multiple continents, this book looks at the failings of drug prohibition from racialised drugs policing at festivals in the UK to the necropolitical wars in Juarez, Mexico, detailing the urgent need to reform our approach to drug laws
Academic
Order is the Best We Can Hope For: Sicario and the Sacrificial Violence of the Law” published in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media Vol. 39, No.2 (Spring 2017)
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“Satan is Black” – Frantz Fanon’s Juridico-Theology of Racialisation and Damnation
published in Law, Culture and the Humanities (November 2017)
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The Vitorian recovery and the (re)turn towards a sacrificial international law published in London Review of International Law, Vol.6, No.3 (March 2019)
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Drug Prohibition and the End of Human Rights
published in Susannah Wilson (ed) Prohibition (London: Routledge 2019)
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Michael Gove and other Conservatives show their deep hypocrisy on drug use published in the Washington Post (June 2019)
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How Britain’s tax havens imperilled the welfare state published in the New Statesman (December 2019)
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The Battle to Frame the Defeat published in Dissent (December 2019)
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Kojo Koram 