Description
Book SynopsisIf 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 Peopletakes 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 antidrug 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.
Trade Review"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 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: On War and Potentiality
1. The Drug War as Widely Diff used Complexity
2. “Addicts” and the Disruptive Politics of Showing
3. A Community of Those without Community
4. Disclosive Freedom
5. Attuned Care
Epilogue: Otherwise
Notes
Index
