
Addictions
Rebecca Lemon(Editor)
Duke University Press
Published on 31. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
190 pages
978-1-4780-1731-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this special issue, contributors argue that addiction is at the forefront of current global conversations on biopolitics, yet its history is only beginning to be uncovered. By reassessing what counts as addiction and where we might find it, the authors present new approaches to the concept that addiction can be an expression of devotion (as its Latin etymology suggests), can provide authorial inspiration, or can be defined by legal bias and institutional structures, a phenomenon largely devised to exclude or target racialized groups (as with imperial and colonial attitudes toward drug use).
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-1731-8 (9781478017318)
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Person
Rebecca Lemon is a Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California.