In this Book
- A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- 4. Disclosive Freedom
- pp. 100-131
- 5. Attuned Care
- pp. 132-157
- Epilogue: Otherwise
- pp. 158-162
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520969957
Related ISBN(s)
9780520297692, 9780520297708
MARC Record
OCLC
1035218565
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-17
Language
English
Open Access
No