Putting at Risk What We Know : Reflecting on the Drug Using Subject in Harm Reduction and Its Political Implications  

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Moore, David ; Fraser, Suzanne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 12 (Jun. 2006), page 3035-3047.
Topik: DRUG; drug use; harm reduction; neo liberalism; post structuralism; feminism

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper provides a post structuralist analysis of the cultural inscription of drug using subjects in the neo liberal discourses of contemporary harm reduction. We argue that although neo liberal discourses downplay material constraints on individual human agency, divert policy and practice away from structural issues, limit the conception of effective strategies for harm reduction and ignore alternative formulations of the subject, they are also potentially empowering for drug users. Approximating the neo liberal subject offers political ebenfits in terms of recognition, trust and legitimation. even as those values assume and reproduce understandings of behaviour, thought and sociality that fit only poorly the realities faced by many drug users. We explore this dilemma and consider three available directions in formulating the subject of harm reduction : 1. embracing the neo liberal subject 2. employing a more contextualised version of the neoliberal subject, and 3. adopting alternative notions of subjectivity, extending the critique of the neo liberal subject to all citizens, not sole drug users. to clarify some of these issues surrounding this strategic process, the paper considers another field in which struggless over the nature of the subject have been conducted feminism. The intention is not tor esolve the question of the most appropriate subject for harm reduction, but to sketch the political consequences for adopting particular models of the subject as a stimulus to further discussion and debate.

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