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portada righteous dopefiend
Type
Physical Book
Language
English
Pages
359
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
24x18.2x2.3 cm
Weight
1.01 kg.
ISBN
0520254988
ISBN13
9780520254985

righteous dopefiend

Philippe Bourgois (Author) · Jeffrey Schonberg (Author) · University of California Press · Paperback

righteous dopefiend - Philippe Bourgois

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Synopsis "righteous dopefiend"

This powerful work of gonzo journalism, predating the widespread acknowledgement of the opioid epidemic as such, immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers in the San Francisco drug scene, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, larceny, panhandling, recycling, and day labor. Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stunning black-and-white photography with vivid dialogue, oral biography, detailed field notes, and critical theoretical analysis to viscerally illustrate the life of a drug addict. Its gripping narrative develops a cast of characters around the themes of violence, racism and race relations, sexuality, trauma, embodied suffering, social inequality, and power relations. The result is a dispassionate chronicle of fixes and overdoses; of survival, loss, caring, and hope rooted in the drug abusers' determination to hang on for one more day, through a "moral economy of sharing" that precariously balances mutual solidarity and interpersonal betrayal.
Philippe Bourgois
  (Author)
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Es profesor de Antropología y Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria en la Universidad de Pensilvania. Ha publicado numerosos artículos sobre la pobreza, las drogas, las tensiones étnicas, la violencia y el sida. Con este libro ganó, entre otros premios, el C. Wright Mills y el Margaret Mead. En 2009 publicó, junto con Jeff Schonberg, Righteous Dopefiend, un estudio etnográfico que documenta, mediante fotos, doce años en la vida de una comunidad de heroinómanos y consumidores de crack que viven en las calles de San Francisco.

Además de sus estudios sobre la pobreza y las drogas en los guetos estadounidenses, ha realizado trabajos de campo en Centroamérica, como el que dio lugar a su primer libro (Bananos, etnia, y luchas sociales en Centroamérica), que describe las condiciones de vida de los trabajadores de la banana en Panamá y Costa Rica. Con Nancy Scheper-Hughes publicó, en 2004, Violence in War and Peace. Actualmente investiga las relaciones entre pobreza, drogas y violencia en la comunidad puertorriqueña del norte de Filadelfia.
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