Injecting bodies in more-than-human worlds : mediating drug-body-world relations /
Dennis, Fay,
Injecting bodies in more-than-human worlds : mediating drug-body-world relations / Fay Dennis. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). - Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness .
Introduction: drug research in more-than-human worlds -- Approaching bodies : "becoming-with" -- Thinking bodies : conceptualising pleasure and not-so-pleasurable concepts -- Practicing bodies : "on the tilt" : the injecting event and the fragility of pleasure among other affects -- Living bodies : vital becomings: becoming-normal, -other and "blocked with drugs" -- Intervening-with bodies : troubling recovery : mediating habits and doing more than harm reduction -- Conclusion: empowering bodies: making bodies better? -- Appendix -- Bibliography.
Drug use is widely understood in terms of its subjects, substances and settings. But what happens when these distinctions start to blur? Injecting Bodies in More-than-Human Worlds moves away from a hierarchical conceptualisation of drug use based on its subjects and their objects, offering unique and fresh insights into the complex world of injecting drugs. Focussing on the Deleuzian notion of bodies-in-process, Dennis proposes a new and timely approach to drugs where agency materialises in relation to others - human and not. Using rich, ethnographic data to demonstrate bodies' in/capacities to act through their relationality, Dennis carefully maps out where bodies are thought, practised, lived and intervened-with: caught in tension between pleasure and addiction, activity and passivity, 'becoming-other' and 'becoming-blocked', and making and breaking habits. Arguing for a deeper engagement both with how bodies are enacted and with our collective responsibility to bring them together in healthier ways, this volume offers a unique intervention into the sociology of drugs and, more widely, health and illness. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Science and Technology Studies, Sociology and Social Policy, Drugs and Addiction, and Health and Medical Anthropology.
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Drugs of abuse--Research.
Drugs of abuse--Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
RM316
362.29
Injecting bodies in more-than-human worlds : mediating drug-body-world relations / Fay Dennis. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). - Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness .
Introduction: drug research in more-than-human worlds -- Approaching bodies : "becoming-with" -- Thinking bodies : conceptualising pleasure and not-so-pleasurable concepts -- Practicing bodies : "on the tilt" : the injecting event and the fragility of pleasure among other affects -- Living bodies : vital becomings: becoming-normal, -other and "blocked with drugs" -- Intervening-with bodies : troubling recovery : mediating habits and doing more than harm reduction -- Conclusion: empowering bodies: making bodies better? -- Appendix -- Bibliography.
Drug use is widely understood in terms of its subjects, substances and settings. But what happens when these distinctions start to blur? Injecting Bodies in More-than-Human Worlds moves away from a hierarchical conceptualisation of drug use based on its subjects and their objects, offering unique and fresh insights into the complex world of injecting drugs. Focussing on the Deleuzian notion of bodies-in-process, Dennis proposes a new and timely approach to drugs where agency materialises in relation to others - human and not. Using rich, ethnographic data to demonstrate bodies' in/capacities to act through their relationality, Dennis carefully maps out where bodies are thought, practised, lived and intervened-with: caught in tension between pleasure and addiction, activity and passivity, 'becoming-other' and 'becoming-blocked', and making and breaking habits. Arguing for a deeper engagement both with how bodies are enacted and with our collective responsibility to bring them together in healthier ways, this volume offers a unique intervention into the sociology of drugs and, more widely, health and illness. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Science and Technology Studies, Sociology and Social Policy, Drugs and Addiction, and Health and Medical Anthropology.
9780429466137 0429466137 9780429880728 0429880723 9780429880704 0429880707 9780429880711 0429880715
Drugs of abuse--Research.
Drugs of abuse--Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
RM316
362.29