Drug use is widely understood in terms on its subjects, substances and settings. But what happens when these distinctions start to blur?
Injecting Bodies in More-than-Human Worlds moves away from the 'materiality' of drug use and non-human matter and offers unique and fresh insights into the world of injecting drugs. Focusing on the Deleuzian-Spinozian notion of bodies-in-process, Dennis proposes a new and timely approach to drug use whereby bodies are conceptualized in relation to others - human and not - as something we do, as opposed to something we have. Using rich, ethnographic data to demonstrate their in/capacities to act through this relationality, Dennis carefully maps out where these bodies are thought, practiced, 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 deeper engagement both with how bodies are enacted and our collective role in combining them in healthier ways, this volume is a unique intervention into the sociology of drugs and, more widely, health and illness. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Science and Technology Studies, Sociology and Social Policy, Drugs and Addiction, and Health and Medical Anthropology.