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Framing Drug Use: Bodies, Space, Economy and Crime


Framing Drug Use: Bodies, Space, Economy and Crime

Hardback by Fitzgerald, J.

Framing Drug Use: Bodies, Space, Economy and Crime

£44.99

ISBN:
9781137482235
Publication Date:
26 Jun 2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages:
289 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 16 - 18 May 2024
Framing Drug Use: Bodies, Space, Economy and Crime

Description

This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime.

Contents

1. Introduction: Who is Responsible? 2. Navigating a Pharmacoanalysis 3. The Image of Drug Desire 4. Syringes, Metonymy, Global Fear and News 5. The Rave Assemblage 6. Faciality and Drug Photography 7. The Spatial Economies of Drug Dealing 8. Drinking as a Global 'Mo'-vement Assemblage 9. Drugs and the Abject 10. Drugs and Transitional Economies 11. Neuroenablement and Hope 12. Pharmacological Omnipotence and Sexual Violence 13. Drug Epistemologies

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