Framing Drug Use - Bodies, Space, Economy and Crime

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

List of 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

Product details

• Authors: J Fitzgerald, J. Fitzgerald, John L. Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2015
• EAN: 9781137482235
• ISBN: 978-1-137-48223-5
• No. of pages: 301
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; B, Sociology, Social Inequality, Social Theory, Criminology, Social & ethical issues, Sociology, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Crime & criminology, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Crime—Sociological aspects, Crime and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Social medicine, Medical Sociology