Fay Dennis

Injecting Bodies in More-than-Human Worlds

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780367660406
• ISBN-10: 0367660407
• Artikelnr.: 60008286

Autorenporträt

Fay Dennis is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Social Science and Bioethics in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Doing drug research in more-than-human worlds
Chapter 1: Approaching bodies: 'Becoming-with'
1. Affect, matter, practice
2. Becoming-with as method
3. Rhizomatic analysis or becoming moved
4. Ethicopolitics or doing research with care
Chapter 2: Thinking bodies: Conceptualising pleasure and not-so-pleasurable
concepts
1. Conceptualising addicted pleasure: A modern paradox
2. Making concepts: Keeping pleasure and addiction apart
3. Pleasure has never been free: 'As soon as I start to think about
it...'
4. Pleasure-in-tension: '...It's a really lovely feeling but my god the
crap that comes with it'
Chapter 3: Practicing bodies: 'On the tilt': The injecting event and the
fragility of pleasure among other affects
1. 'Keeping the glass upright': A relational achievement
2. Fragile connections: Directing bodies towards pleasure
3. 'The glass drops': Slipping assemblages
4. Balancing 'the speedball': 'A different drug altogether'
Chapter 4: Living bodies: Vital becomings: Becoming-normal, -other and
-blocked with drugs
1. Becoming 'normal'
2. Becoming-other
3. Becoming-blocked: 'You don't grow'
Chapter 5: Intervening-with bodies: Troubling recovery: Mediating habits
and doing more than harm reduction
1. Becoming-with drugs as habit
2. 'The recovery agenda'
3. More-than-harm-reduction: Working with habits
Conclusion: Empowering bodies: Making bodies better?
Appendix
Bibliography