Righteous dopefiend [[electronic resource] /] / Philippe Bourgois, Jeff Schonberg
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| Autore: |
Bourgois Philippe I. <1956->
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| Titolo: |
Righteous dopefiend [[electronic resource] /] / Philippe Bourgois, Jeff Schonberg
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.9/0874 |
| Soggetto topico: | Drug addicts - United States - Social conditions |
| Drug addicts - United States - Economic conditions | |
| Homeless persons - Drug use - United States | |
| Marginality, Social - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato: | addiction |
| betrayal | |
| biography | |
| black and white photography | |
| burglary | |
| dialogue | |
| dispassionate chronicle | |
| drug abusers | |
| drug and alcohol abuse | |
| gonzo journalism | |
| gripping narrative | |
| heroin | |
| homeless | |
| human survival | |
| inequality | |
| larceny | |
| life of a drug addict | |
| memoir | |
| opioid epidemic | |
| overdose | |
| panhandling | |
| race relations | |
| racism | |
| san francisco drug scene | |
| sexuality | |
| solidarity | |
| suffering | |
| theoretical analysis | |
| trauma | |
| treatment of addicts | |
| vicious cycle | |
| violence | |
| Altri autori: |
SchonbergJeff <1967->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Righteous dopefiend |
| ISBN: | 1-283-29175-4 |
| 9786613291752 | |
| 0-520-94331-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457414603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
California series in public anthropology ; ; 21.