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Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of
rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in
America focuses on the material, lived experience of addiction and
the ways in which it is shaped by a 'metaphor of waste', from the
manner in which people describe the addict, the experience of
inebriation or his or her systematic exclusion from various aspects
of American culture. With analyses of scientific and popular
cultural texts such as novels and films, scholarly or medical
models of addiction, reality television, TV drama, public health
and anti-addiction campaigns, and the lives of celebrities who
struggled with addiction, this book recovers the sense of
materiality in which the experience of substance abuse is anchored,
revealing addiction to be a set of socio-cultural practices,
historically-contingent events and behaviours. Exploring the ways
in which addiction as an identity construct, as a social problem,
and as a lived experience is always and already circumscribed by
the metaphor of waste, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America
advances the idea that addiction constitutes a site of social
control beyond the individual, through which American citizenship
is regulated and the 'nation' itself is imagined, demarcated, and
contained. As such, it will appeal to scholars of popular culture,
cultural and media studies, performance studies, sociology and
American culture.
Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of
rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in
America focuses on the material, lived experience of addiction and
the ways in which it is shaped by a 'metaphor of waste', from the
manner in which people describe the addict, the experience of
inebriation or his or her systematic exclusion from various aspects
of American culture. With analyses of scientific and popular
cultural texts such as novels and films, scholarly or medical
models of addiction, reality television, TV drama, public health
and anti-addiction campaigns, and the lives of celebrities who
struggled with addiction, this book recovers the sense of
materiality in which the experience of substance abuse is anchored,
revealing addiction to be a set of socio-cultural practices,
historically-contingent events and behaviours. Exploring the ways
in which addiction as an identity construct, as a social problem,
and as a lived experience is always and already circumscribed by
the metaphor of waste, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America
advances the idea that addiction constitutes a site of social
control beyond the individual, through which American citizenship
is regulated and the 'nation' itself is imagined, demarcated, and
contained. As such, it will appeal to scholars of popular culture,
cultural and media studies, performance studies, sociology and
American culture.
Stages of Sexuality argues that the lived spatial experiences of
Generation X gay men are characterized by a profound sense of
homelessness (a psychic/material condition distinguished by social
dissociation, restricted social mobility, and invisibility to the
public gaze). In each of the four chapters of this study, Diehl
explores the cultural/sexual/generational politics of a single site
at which young gay male identities are produced/performed to gain
an extended understanding of how spatial practices can facilitate a
more equitable and just distribution of the social order and reveal
less restrictive alternatives for how young gay men inhabit that
order. At the heart of the study is a search for home, a search
which Diehl argues is tempered by the knowledge that home is both
kaleidoscopic and fictive-not the place we come from but the places
to which we endlessly return. Ultimately the author suggests that
while young gay men are always and only "halfway home," they
continue to press their bodies against social space both with cause
and with determination because those actions matter to both
personal and political survival.
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