Event overview
Please join us to launch Fay Dennis's book: Injecting bodies in more-than-human worlds
Book launch with guest speakers: Darin Weinberg (University of Cambridge), Nicole Vitellone (University of Liverpool) and Tim Rhodes (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), chaired by Marsha Rosengarten (Goldsmiths, University of London).
About the book:
Drug use is widely understood in terms of its subjects, substances and settings. But what happens when these distinctions start to blur?
Injecting Bodies in More-than-Human Worlds moves away from a hierarchical conceptualisation of drug use based on its subjects and their objects, offering fresh insights into the complex world of injecting drugs. Focusing on the Deleuzian notion of bodies-in-process, Dennis proposes a new and timely approach to drugs where agency materialises in relation to others – human and not. Using ethnographic data to demonstrate bodies’ in/capacities to act through their relationality, Dennis carefully maps out where bodies are thought, practised, lived and intervened-with: caught in tension between pleasure and addiction, activity and passivity, ‘becoming-other’ and ‘becoming-blocked’, and making and breaking habits.
Arguing for a deeper engagement both with how bodies are enacted and with our collective responsibility to bring them together in healthier ways, this volume offers a unique intervention into the sociology of drugs and, more widely, health and illness.
Refreshments provided.
This event is generously supported by the Centre for Invention and Social Process.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 20 Jan 2020 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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