Time and Affects

Marrati, Paola

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“…Based on these themes, a preliminary coding framework was developed. A second step, informed by Marrati's (2006) critical focus on the production of social problems, involved detailed reading of the coded material for instances in which the problem of addiction was constituted in policy and practice. We adopted an interpretivist approach to explore the ways in which the problem of addiction was constituted and the political effects of these problematizations in policy and service provision.…”

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“…Answers necessarily derive from the form of the problem, but the problem is not given in advance; it must be constituted. (p. 313) Citing French philosopher Henri Bergson (1992, p. 50), Marrati (2006) argued that researchers and others seeking to address social problems should not simply accept the definitions of problems produced by the "administrative archives of the state" (p. 314). Instead, she called for a more critical approach to the constitution of social problems, quoting Deleuze (1994, p. 159, as cited in Marrati, 2006) to elaborate this approach:…”

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“…Drawing on the work of feminist science studies theorist Paola Marrati (2006), who adapted French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s (1994) discussion of “problems” to consider the problem of the body in feminist research, and on a pilot study comprising 20 in-depth semistructured interviews with senior policy makers and practitioners in Victoria, we analyze health policy and practice and their relationship to the production of the problem of addiction. We argue that addiction is conceived in policy as a bounded problem, a condition that can be treated in isolation from other problems.…”

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Producing the “Problem” of Addiction in Drug Treatment

Moore

Fraser

2013

Qual Health Res

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In this article, we argue that the "problem" of addiction emerges as an effect of treatment policy and practice as well as a precursor to it. We draw on the work of Marrati to analyze interviews with policy makers and practitioners in Australia. The interviews suggest that the episode-of-care system governing service activity, outcomes, and funding relies on certain notions of addiction and treatment that compel service providers to designate service users as addicts to receive funding. This has a range of effects, not least that in acquiring the label of "addict," service users enter into bureaucratic and epidemiological systems aimed at quantifying addiction. Rather than treating pre-existing addicts, the system produces "addicts" as an effect of policy imperatives. Because addiction comes to be produced by the very system designed to treat it, the scale of the problem appears to be growing rather than shrinking.

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Producing the “Problem” of Addiction in Drug Treatment

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2013

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“…They also physically connect and touch each other. These are bodies that do not feel constrained by normative expectations of the everyday but instead show their “inner selves.” In this instance, it seems that young men are already experimenting with, and composing, affective relations in joyful rather than destructive ways (Marrati, 2006). Assessed ethically, these practices and affects increase these young men’s ability to become and form new positive relations.…”

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“…It seems that in these experiences, these young men are able to play with the relations that make up the possibilities of life in positive ways. They are already escaping the dualistic machines that oppose self and other, feminine and masculine, and subject and object (Marrati, 2006). They are assembling experimental fields of experience in which the affects of their own bodies are becoming with the affects of other bodies in positive ways.…”

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“You Can’t Just Give Your Best Mate a Massive Hug Every Day”

Farrugia

2015

Contemporary Drug Problems

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This article has two main aims. First, it contributes to youth alcohol and other drug (AOD) research interested in pushing beyond simplistic accounts of peer pressure. Second, it provides an account of the enactment of masculinity in young men’s drug consumption that allows for an engagement with practices rarely present in AOD research. I analyze interviews with 25 Australian young men (aged 16–19) about their MDMA/ecstasy consumption practices. I argue, common concepts such as “peer pressure” fail to grasp the complexity of sociality and drug consumption. Current understandings of the role of masculinity in young men’s drug consumption also struggle to engage with the practices that appear in this article. Co-constituted capacities of communication, intimacy, and friendship all emerge in many of the accounts of these young men’s MDMA consumption. I argue that in these events can be seen experimental practices in which young men play with the possibilities of life. In order to analyze the exchanges of sensation that shape these events, I work with Georg Simmel’s notion of “play” re-enacted through a Deleuzian ontology of affective assemblages. This conceptual approach enacts the experiences these young men speak of as events in which they are able to play in assemblages that shape their affective capacities. Three themes are identified in the interview data. First, I discuss a desire for communication in which young men emphasize the pleasures of being able to communicate in new ways. Next, I analyze the role the place and time of consumption plays in co-constituting these social practices. Finally, I look at the pleasures associated with the breaking down of perceived ontological bodily boundaries. My analysis suggests that young men are able to play with drugs, friends, masculinity, and space–time in ways that make new and positive sensations, experiences, and affects possible.

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Time and Affects

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Producing the “Problem” of Addiction in Drug Treatment

Producing the “Problem” of Addiction in Drug Treatment

“You Can’t Just Give Your Best Mate a Massive Hug Every Day”

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