Gubernamentalidad y riesgo en el campo de las drogas: Análisis de las prácticas de gobierno en torno al problemadrogas en Chile posdictatorial

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.