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A War on People

Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community

Jarrett Zigon author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:28th Dec '18

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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.

"For those interested in a theoretically complex and ambitious contribution to the anthropology of ethics and political anthropology, this book has much to offer." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *

ISBN: 9780520297692

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 408g

215 pages