Addicted. Pregnant. Poor by Kelly Ray Knight (Duke University Press, 2015). This deeply engaging and long standing ethnography conducted from 2007 to 2011 fully discloses the sufferings of women living in daily rent hotels in abandoned industrial spaces in San Francisco, who are categorised as “addicted, pregnant, poor.” Kelly Ray Read more…
This Weekly Research Seminar will commence at 11:30am in room 005, 48/49 Old Elvet, Durham. Refreshments will be available from 11:00am with the talk commencing at 11:30am. Dr Gerald Moore – The Pharmacology of Addiction Abstract: A photo from a December 2014 issue of The New Scientist shows an adolescent Read more…
‘Addiction Trajectories’ edited by Eugene Raikhel and William Garriott (Duke University Press, 2013) According to the editors of Addiction Trajectories, ‘Addiction is particularly relevant as an object of anthropological inquiry because it sits at the crossroads of some of the issues that most define the world today’ (p. 1). The Read more…
The Subject of Addiction: Culture and Clinic The Centre for Critical Theory, University of Nottingham This conference is taking place at the University of Nottingham on the 8th and 9th of September 2014. This interdisciplinary event brings together critical and cultural theorists with clinical practitioners in order to interrogate contemporary addiction discourse, Read more…
Eugene Raikhel and William Garriott’s fascinating new book ‘Addiction Trajectories’ (Duke University Press, 2014) is available for review and expressions of interest are welcome from across the medical humanities, especially from those with a background in Anthropology. ‘Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the Read more…
Mary Manjikian writes: Whenever I talk about the politics of internet addiction in an American setting, a funny thing happens. I put up the usual 9-question quiz which asks the audience to consider their responses to questions like: I sometimes lie to others about the amount of time I spend Read more…