Framing Drug Use

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.

Autorentext

John Fitzgerald is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has PhDs in both Neuroscience and English and has had leadership positions as both an academic and in executive roles in government. His published work spans criminology, sociology, philosophy, medicine, public policy and public health.

Inhalt

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