A War on People

Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Political Science, Government
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Author: Jarrett Zigon ISBN: 9780520969957
Publisher: University of California Press Publication: November 20, 2018
Imprint: University of California Press Language: English
Author: Jarrett Zigon
ISBN: 9780520969957
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication: November 20, 2018
Imprint: University of California Press
Language: English

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.

Read the author's article about the opiod crisis on Open Democracy.

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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.

Read the author's article about the opiod crisis on Open Democracy.

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