Book
A war on people
Abstract
If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical motivations? What might be the aims of our political activity? A War on People takes up these questions and offers a glimpse of a possible alternative future in this ethnographically and theoretically rich examination of the activity of some unlikely political actors: users of heroin and crack cocaine, both active and former. The result is a groundbreaking book on how anti–drug war political activity offers transformative processes that are termed worldbuilding and enacts nonnormative, open, and relationally inclusive alternatives to such key concepts as community, freedom, and care.
Publication details
Publisher: University of California Press
Place: Berkeley
Year: 2018
Pages: 215
ISBN (hardback): 9780520297692
ISBN (paperback): 9780520297708
ISBN (digital): 9780520969957
Full citation:
Zigon Jarrett (2018) A war on people. Berkeley, University of California Press.