Framing drug use [electronic resource] : bodies, space, economy and crime /
Fitzgerald, J.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; 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; Bibliography; Author Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sociology.
Criminology.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Social medicine.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Sociology, general.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Crime and Society.
Medical Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social Theory.