Framing Drug Use
Bodies, Space, Economy and Crime
Published on 26. June 2015
Book
Hardback
XII, 289 pages
978-1-137-48223-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
2015 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XII, 289 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-48223-5 (9781137482235)
DOI
10.1057/9781137482242
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06/2015
1st Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
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01/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€96.29
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Person
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.
Content
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