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Righteous dopefiend / Philippe Bourgois, Jeff Schonberg.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bourgois, Philippe I., 1956-
- Series:
- California series in public anthropology ; 21.
- California series in public anthropology ; 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug addicts--United States--Social conditions.
- Drug addicts.
- Drug addicts--United States--Economic conditions.
- Homeless persons--Drug use--United States.
- Homeless persons.
- Marginality, Social--United States.
- Marginality, Social.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (392 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling, and day labor. Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stunning black-and-white photographs with vivid dialogue, detailed field notes, and critical theoretical analysis. Its gripping narrative develops a cast of characters around the themes of violence, race relations, sexuality, family trauma, embodied suffering, social inequality, and power relations. The result is a dispassionate chronicle of survival, loss, caring, and hope rooted in the addicts' determination to hang on for one more day and one more "fix" through a "moral economy of sharing" that precariously balances mutual solidarity and interpersonal betrayal.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a theory of abuse
- Intimate apartheid
- Falling in love
- A community of addicted bodies
- Childhoods
- Making money
- Parenting
- Male love
- Everyday addicts
- Treatment
- Conclusion: critically applied public anthropology.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613291752
- 9781283291750
- 1283291754
- 9780520943315
- 0520943317
- OCLC:
- 763158169
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