A War on People
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A War on People

Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community

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  2. English
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A War on People

Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community

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If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical motivations? What might be the aims of our political activity? A War on People takes up these questions and offers a glimpse of a possible alternative future in this ethnographically and theoretically rich examination of the activity of some unlikely political actors: users of heroin and crack cocaine, both active and former. The result is a groundbreaking book on how anti–drug war political activity offers transformative processes that are termed worldbuilding and enacts nonnormative, open, and relationally inclusive alternatives to such key concepts as community, freedom, and care. Read the author's article about the opiod crisis on Open Democracy.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780520969957
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. A War on People
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: On War and Potentiality
  9. 1. The Drug War as Widely Diffused Complexity
  10. 2. “Addicts” and the Disruptive Politics of Showing
  11. 3. A Community of Those without Community
  12. 4. Disclosive Freedom
  13. 5. Attuned Care
  14. Epilogue: Otherwise
  15. Notes
  16. Index