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.
Author(s): Aysel Sultan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 289
City: Singapore
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
