Overview
- Provides fresh perspectives on youth subjectivities and the place of people who use drugs within critical drug discourse
- Uses evidence from diverse cultural contexts to offer new perspectives on recovery from alcohol and other drug use
- Re-evaluates culturally familiar and traditional understandings of the recovery concept
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Drawing together insights and provocations from diverse fields of inquiry, this important new book asks probing questions about the lived experience of substance use and misuse, health and recovery. What if we were to approach these experiences in terms of spaces and events, affects and relations rather than subjects and their settled identities? In charting this course, the book offers a powerful new social logic of health, wellbeing and recovery.
— Cameron Duff, Associate Professor, RMIT University
This is an important book which expands and deepens our understanding of recovery. It presents recovery as something made in practice, taking multiple forms in specific contexts. Drawing on qualitative research with young people in Azerbaijan and Germany, Sultan takes the concept of recovery beyond its more familiar and normative iterations and instead introduces the reader to a fascinating field of dynamic and unruly relations.— Helen Keane, Professor in Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Diversifying Knowledge and Science of Recovery
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Recovery From and Within Drug Use
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Reviews
Aysel Sultan's new book makes a vital contribution to the established body of critical drug scholarship, through its analysis of recovery discourses and practices. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies, posthumanisms, new materialisms and original empirical research conducted in Germany and Azerbaijan, the book is essential reading for all those interested in how 'addiction' and its subjects are constituted, including, crucially, in non-Western settings.
- Kate Seear, Associate Professor, La Trobe University Australia
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Aysel Sultan is a researcher at the Department of Science, Technology and Society, Technical University of Munich and co-Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly Drugs, Habits and Social Policy journal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recovering Assemblages
Book Subtitle: Unfolding Sociomaterial Relations of Drug Use and Recovery
Authors: Aysel Sultan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1235-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1234-4Published: 31 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1237-5Published: 01 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-1235-1Published: 30 August 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 282
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medical Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Public Health