The A-Space
anarchist community spaceUpcoming events
- First Annual West Philly Pestoff(3 days)
- MOSAIC Open Mic(10 days)
- Shape-Notes(16 days)
- Something Old, Something New: Matt Green Exhibit(19 days)
- Yoga for Activists & Beyond(55 days)
Events
Navigation
User login
We are an all volunteer collective with no funding. Make a donation to help us serve the community!
Who's online
There are currently 0 users and 2 guests online.
The Politics of Addiction: Harm Reduction as Anarchist Practice
Submitted by aspace on 22 April 2010 - 10:22pm.
Jul 12 2010 - 7:00pm
Jul 12 2010 - 9:00pm
*The Politics of Addiction: Harm Reduction as Anarchist Practice*
download readings for Monday, July 5th below
This thing we call ‘addiction’ is a fundamentally political issue, implicated in questions of will, autonomy, agency, consumption and control.
As a response to the destructiveness of punitive, enforcement-based drug policies, the practice of harm reduction originated as an illegal, clandestine activity that took place outside—or in defiant opposition to—
state and legal authority.
Starting with the premise that harm reduction constitutes a form of anarchist practice that exists in conflict with institutionalization, this informal workshop course seeks to critically re-map the politics of addiction by theoretically interrogating the policy, discourse, ideology and lived experience of drug use and drug dependence.
Intended for users, former users, public health and harm reduction workers, academics and anyone else interested in critically exploring interdisciplinary, alternative, anarchist-oriented analyses of addiction, this course will actively challenge and critique popular perceptions of drug use/users as well as the dominant (moral, criminological and pathological) paradigms that have been used to study and understand addiction.
Mondays. 7-9 pm
potluck/brown bag (feel free to bring food to eat or to share for potluck)