Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users' Guide to Urban Space

(Part of the Routledge Advances in Sociology Series)

by Christopher Grant Smith

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Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section - Drug/Culture - demonstrates how the body of the addict and the social body of the city are both inscribed by "controlled" substance. Positing addiction as a "pathology (out) of place" that is specific to the (late-)capitalist...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0367597667

ISBN13:9780367597665

Release Date:June 2020

Publisher:Routledge

Length:234 Pages

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Self Help Self-Help Self-Help & Psychology Social Science Social Sciences

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Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users' Guide to Urban Space

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