Fay Dennis

Injecting Bodies in More-than-Human Worlds (eBook, ePUB)

ediating Drug-Body-World Relations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429880711
• Artikelnr.: 56835125

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