{"id":63,"date":"2022-05-09T17:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/?p=63"},"modified":"2022-05-09T17:11:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T16:11:32","slug":"dr-anna-waldstein-on-dangerous-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/2022\/05\/09\/dr-anna-waldstein-on-dangerous-desires\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Anna Waldstein on &#8216;Dangerous Desires&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=009308759663521761724:esrvl6i_3t0&amp;q=https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/977\/waldstein-anna&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwju69iw5NL3AhVNJhoKHZZ9DdQQFnoECAUQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw34EINfLI_HSzcfWUYgkQ64\">Dr Anna Waldstein<\/a>, a leading expert on the\u00a0political and spiritual dimensions of medicinal plant-use, along with multi-award winning novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joannakavenna.com\">Joanna Kavenna<\/a> and Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/d.nutt\">David Nutt<\/a> discussed the root of our cultural ambivalence towards \u2018intoxicants\u2019 at the \u2018How the Light Gets In\u2019 festival last year. The session was moderated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunestaylor.com\">G\u00fcne\u015f Taylor<\/a>, a training fellow at the Francis Crick Institute<\/p>\n<p>A recording of the session, title \u2019Dangerous desires: Must we adopt a new attitude to social drugs?\u2019 is now online.<\/p>\n<p>Is the drive to explore one\u2019s different levels of consciousness universal? How should we understand (and indeed pronounce) the word \u2018recreational\u2019 in contemporary discussions of drugs? How can we move on from \u2018unconscious party culture\u2019? What are the alternative social imaginations for cannabis?<\/p>\n<p>Watch Dr Waldstein&#8217;s thought provoking contributions to this three-segment debate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iai.tv\/video\/dangerous-desires?_auid=2020&amp;checkoutSuccess=1\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Anna Waldstein, a leading expert on the\u00a0political and spiritual dimensions of medicinal plant-use, along with multi-award winning novelist Joanna Kavenna and Chair of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/2022\/05\/09\/dr-anna-waldstein-on-dangerous-desires\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78017,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}