9780520254985-0520254988-Righteous Dopefiend (Volume 21) (California Series in Public Anthropology)

Righteous Dopefiend (Volume 21) (California Series in Public Anthropology)

ISBN-13: 9780520254985
ISBN-10: 0520254988
Edition: First Edition
Author: Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 392 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520254985
ISBN-10: 0520254988
Edition: First Edition
Author: Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 392 pages

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Righteous Dopefiend (Volume 21) (California Series in Public Anthropology) (ISBN-13: 9780520254985 and ISBN-10: 0520254988), written by authors Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg, was published by University of California Press in 2009. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Journalists (Professionals & Academics, West, Regional U.S., Criminology, Social Sciences, Cultural, Anthropology, Urban, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Righteous Dopefiend (Volume 21) (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Journalists books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.71.

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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.

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