Righteous Dopefiend
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addiction
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betrayal
biography
black and white photography
burglary
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dialogue
dispassionate chronicle
drug abusers
drug and alcohol abuse
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gonzo journalism
gripping narrative
heroin
homeless
human survival
inequality
larceny
life of a drug addict
memoir
opioid epidemic
overdose
panhandling
race relations
racism
san francisco drug scene
sexuality
solidarity
suffering
theoretical analysis
trauma
treatment of addicts
vicious cycle
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9780520254985
- Weight: 998g
- Dimensions: 178 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 29 May 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction 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 on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling, and day labor. "Righteous Dopefiend" interweaves stunning black-and-white photographs with vivid dialogue, detailed field notes, and critical theoretical analysis. Its gripping narrative develops a cast of characters around the themes of violence, race relations, sexuality, family trauma, embodied suffering, social inequality, and power relations.The result is a dispassionate chronicle of survival, loss, caring, and hope rooted in the addicts' determination to hang on for one more day and one more 'fix' through a 'moral economy of sharing' that precariously balances mutual solidarity and interpersonal betrayal.
Philippe Bourgois is Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Jeff Schonberg is a photographer and a graduate student in medical anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco.
