The drug <i>dispositif</i>: Ambivalent materiality and the addiction of the global drug prohibition regime

Herschinger, Eva

doi:10.1177/0967010614552544

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“…As with the drug test, or other material devices of drug policy, the assemblage of human and non-human forces can be seen as drug control dispositif (Foucault). Through this lens the power relations of material objects and their discursive embeddings can be highlighted (e.g., Gomart & Hennion, 1999;Herschinger, 2015;Paul & Egbert, 2016;Sarmiento et al, 2019). This short overview of existing studies shows that socio-material perspectives are already present in (critical) drug research, creating important new sensitivities regarding the co-constitution of drug policy and the materiality of control and prevention measures.…”

Section: The Socio-materiality Of Drug Use Prevention and Controlmentioning

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Associate Editor’s Introduction: Sharpening the Focus— Taking Into Account the Socio-Materiality of Drug Control and Prevention

Paul

Egbert

2021

Contemporary Drug Problems

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Drug use is an inherently socio-material practice. Drugs are material, as are the bodies that consume them. Likewise, drug control and prevention practices heavily rely on material infrastructures, especially technical objects which enable control and prevention measures by materializing drug use-in the sense of documenting it, hence rendering it intelligible. Ranging from the installation of alcoholinterlock-systems in cars to devices simulating the alcohol experience (e.g., "drunk goggles") or drug testing kits, technologically-based practices aim to prevent and/or detect the use of psychoactive substances, although the specifics of the technology and their underlying rationales (e.g., secondary and tertiary prevention, simulated experience) may differ.Although drug effects and forms of harm are shaped by material-discursive practices, there is a need for more critical work on these issues. This special issue aims to set the stage for a focused discussion on the relationship between drug control and prevention strategies and their materiality-as fundamental prerequisites for materializing drug consumption, "harms," "effects," and/or "impairment." By adopting a socio-material perspective to study such technologies, drug control and prevention practices can be fruitfully analyzed in new ways. When approaching drug control from a socio-material perspective, sensitized to the agency of technical artifacts and/or technical infrastructures, new research questions and empirical methods arise. For example, where responsibility for controlling drug use or preventing drug effects is delegated to technological artifacts, there is the potential for stricter control strategies and more punitive approaches. Other questions concern the new possibilities for action that emerge from processes of technification, whether in drug control (e.g., new drug detection methods), or prevention (e.g. intoxication simulation devices). How is drug consumption discovered and labeled as (mis)use through the utilization of technical instruments and/or material infrastructures (e.g., drug tests, laboratories)? What indicators are used in the course of this and how reliable are they? How do inscribed standards (Akrich, 1992) such as threshold values for (in)appropriate alcohol or other drug use manifest materially and what effects does this have on bringing drug (mis)use into being? How are (material) bodies used as information resources in order to detect drug (mis)use (Aas, 2006;van der Ploeg, 2005)? Last but not least: Which kinds of technical/material mediation support the drug control through personalized monitoring and surveillance and how do consumers feel about this?When drug research has acknowledged socio-material perspectives, it has been predominantly concerned with the agency of drugs "themselves" (see Fraser, 2020) or the agency of people who use drugs. The whole concept of "addiction" has always mobilized highly contradictory questions of agency and the emergence of neuroscientific approaches to addiction research have resulted in...

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Section: The Socio-materiality Of Drug Use Prevention and Controlmentioning

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Associate Editor’s Introduction: Sharpening the Focus— Taking Into Account the Socio-Materiality of Drug Control and Prevention

Paul

Egbert

2021

Contemporary Drug Problems

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“…The concept of the dispositif has been deployed in various fields, such as the EU migration management apparatus (Feldman, 2011), the drug dispositif (Herschinger, 2015) or the remittance-based development dispositif of the Global Remittance Trend (Kunz 2012). 9 Conceptualizing the FOR as a dispositif, rather than a simple neoliberal policy, allows us to articulate the heterogeneity of the FOR in terms of its various discursive and material elements manifesting in multiple spaces, and to identify how the connections in this network establish relations of power and the possibility of governance: this is 'the trick of the dispositif' (Herschinger, 2015, p. 187).…”

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The financialization of remittances: governing through emotions

Kunz

Maisenbacher

Paudel

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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In the context of the global financial crisis, remittances have become linked to the global financial inclusion agenda in a phenomenon called the 'financialization of remittances' (FOR). This article conceptualizes the FOR as a dispositif to analyze how heterogeneous ways of linking remittances to finance form an ensemble that governs things and people and legitimizes particular policy interventions. We combine the concept of the dispositif with insights from the literature on emotions to analyze how the FOR governs through an emotional regime to constitute particular objects and subjects-such as the 'remittance market' and the 'remittance family'. Through this emotional regime, the FOR establishes particular narratives regarding migration, remittances, and transnational families to embed remittances in the global financial architecture; and normalizes practices of turning transnational families into financial customers and entrepreneurs, and entrenching financial logics into their lives. Yet, emotions are also mobilized to subvert and resist the FOR and its emotional regime. More broadly, our analysis suggests that analyzing emotional governance is crucial to better understand financialization processes and expose their (fragile) nature and limits.

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“…In the field, I observed and perceived pride in the surrounding urban architecture, massive energy infrastructure and sophisticated security technologies. Matter – intended as the tangible things (Connolly, 2013; Herschinger, 2015) and the less corporeal stuff (Leonardi, 2010) that compose the world – and materiality – meaning the substantial characteristics of an object – are not inert but act upon the context in which they exist (Miguel et al, 2021).…”

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Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis

Ganz

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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In this article, I explore how pride as a collective emotion is ontologically bound to the securitisation of energy and put forward an innovative method that engages materiality and discourse in securitisation theory. I examine the case of energy securitisation in Azerbaijan to show that collective pride is anchored to materialisations and reiterative identity discourses that stick to energy sites and align with the nation in ways that fit with the coercive and controlling nature of securitisation. While the existing literature on emotions and securitisation engages with the process of threat construction and focuses on the audience’s affective experience, I approach securitisation as threat construction and threat management and locate the affective dimension of the process in a transversal space that considers the affective experience of the audience alongside that of the securitising actor. This article pays considerable attention to methods and introduces an experimental new materialist discourse analysis, which accounts for the material, affective and non-human world exerting an agential force on the texts.

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The drug dispositif: Ambivalent materiality and the addiction of the global drug prohibition regime

Cited by 18 publications

References 55 publications

Associate Editor’s Introduction: Sharpening the Focus— Taking Into Account the Socio-Materiality of Drug Control and Prevention

Associate Editor’s Introduction: Sharpening the Focus— Taking Into Account the Socio-Materiality of Drug Control and Prevention

The financialization of remittances: governing through emotions

Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis

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