TY - BOOK ID - 136144297 TI - A war on people : drug user politics and a new ethics of community PY - 2018 SN - 0520969952 9780520969957 9780520297692 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Drug abusers KW - Drug control KW - Political activity. KW - Citizen participation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136144297 AB - If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical motivations? What might be the aims of our political activity? A War on People takes up these questions and offers a glimpse of a possible alternative future in this ethnographically and theoretically rich examination of the activity of some unlikely political actors: users of heroin and crack cocaine, both active and former. The result is a groundbreaking book on how anti-drug war political activity offers transformative processes that are termed worldbuilding and enacts nonnormative, open, and relationally inclusive alternatives to such key concepts as community, freedom, and care. ER -