Injecting Bodies in More-Than-Human Worlds

ISBN-13: 9780367660406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Fay Dennis

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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