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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.
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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