Recovering Assemblages: Unfolding Sociomaterial Relations of Drug Use and Recovery

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Recovering Assemblages offers an exciting new insight into the policies and practices of recovery and drug use bridging critical drug studies and the sociology of health and illness. The book investigates lived experiences of young people in Azerbaijan and Germany during their personal recovery from alcohol and other drug use and shows the contingency of 'real' experiences. The sociomaterial and ontological analyses unfold the interrelation of practices, spaces, bodies, and affects in experiencing recovery both within and outside of various treatment facilities. The book will appeal to a range of scholars, postgraduates, and undergraduates engaged in critical, methodological, and empirical studies of recovery, drug use, and policy. Preface References Acknowledgments Contents Abbreviations Part I Connecting the Dots 1 The Need to Rethink Recovery References 2 Materialist Thinking in Critical Recovery Studies Latour and Actor-Network-Theory Contributions of Actor-Network-Theory in Critical Studies of Drug Use References 3 The Stake of a Comparative Approach Case of Azerbaijan Case of Germany Crafting the Comparative Design The Use of Actor-Network-Theory for a Comparative Study Comparisons Through Flat Ontology and (A)Symmetry References 4 Constructing Stories, Rebuilding Attachments Ethical Considerations Hanover and Frankfurt Baku Doing Analysis and the Theoretical Moment The Research Assemblage Actor-Networks in Narratives Constructing Subjectivities References Part II Diversifying Knowledge and Science of Recovery 5 Assembling and Diversifying Social Contexts of Recovery Conceptualizing Recovery Contexts Space The Stories of Recovery Places Practice Making Sense of Recovery Practices Embodiment Transforming Connections and Remaking Meanings References 6 Tracing Relations and Unfolding Recovery Forms Self-Regulated or Natural Recovery Rasim Transitional Recovery Finn Involuntary Recovery Ali Habitual Recovery Saima References 7 Body, Detox, Affect The Event of Recovery Relapse Detox is “Sublime” Body and Bodily Capacities Affects and Affective Capacities References Part III Recovery from and within Drug Use 8 Enacting Recovery: Process or Endpoint? Prioritization and Narrating Differences Recovery as a Matter of Concern Recovering Subject and Vulnerability References 9 Conclusion References Index