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SUMMARY:Zooming Out: Viewing Change and Continuity in Burma’s Opium Trade through Adrian Cowell’s The Warlords
LOCATION:Auditorium 150
DESCRIPTION:In 1972, two British documentary filmmakers - Adrian Cowell and
  Christopher Menges - entered Burma’s Shan State with mules carrying equipm
 ent to shoot a documentary film about the opium trade. A year and a half la
 ter, they returned to the UK with the footage to produce The Warlords. At a
  time when the US war on drugs was getting underway, the film is a tour de 
 force offering one of the few first-hand accounts of the opium trade in Sha
 n State.\n\nAfter a half-century war on drugs, global illicit opium product
 ion has grown tenfold. While methamphetamine has replaced opium as Shan Sta
 te’s primary drug export, many of the same forces at work in the early 1970
 s are still present. The country remains mired in militarized violence. Dru
 g abuse has become a prominent social issue. While efforts to restrict illi
 cit poppy\ncultivation have evolved to address the developmental needs of f
 armers, a law enforcement model utilizing state agents to enforce prohibiti
 on underpins global drug control efforts.\n\nThis panel proposes an innovat
 ive approach to examine the drug trade in Shan State that involves screenin
 g of The Warlords and presentations on different segments of the opium trad
 e followed by a discussion. The film by Cowell and Menges remains unprecede
 nted in its access to primary actors in Burma’s opium trade and provides an
  unusually granular account of its operation. The film is part of a larger 
 corpus of work that offers points of view of different actors in the opium 
 trade. By presenting the perspectives of farmers, foot soldiers, leaders of
  armed resistance organizations, government-allied militias, and drug traff
 ickers, this film reveals a complexity often absent from the current schola
 rly and policy discourse on the opium trade. The film sets the stage for cr
 itical engagement with narratives of opium production.\n\nRead more details
  on “Screenings” Page
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/zooming-out-viewing-change-and-continuity-in-burma-s-opium-trade-through-adrian-cowell-s-the-warlords
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