COVID-19 has resulted in deepened states of crisis and vulnerability for people who use drugs throughout Europe across the world, with social distancing measures having far-reaching implications everyday life. Prolonged periods isolation solitude are acknowledged within much addiction literature as negatively impacting experiences those recovery, while also causing harm to active users - many whom depend on contact purchasing taking substances, well myriad forms support. Solitude, however,...

Bureaucratic regulation shapes cities in important ways. Yet certain aspects of how state operates urban neighborhoods have been understudied geography and cognate disciplines. This article focuses on one group actors: property use, health, liquor inspectors, part a wider "street-level bureaucrats" who, through their face-to-face contact with the public, affect where regulatory enforcement gets done. Through case study inspectors Vancouver, British Columbia, this identifies role street-level...

This article addresses how psychoanalytic methodologies can be used to conduct and analyze semistructured interviews. Drawing on my work as a research assistant during the summer of 2006, I discuss process interviewing soccer fans who attended televised broadcasts FIFA World Cup matches in cafés Vancouver, British Columbia. The examined emotional geographies nationalism consumption using Lacanian concept enjoyment. Reflecting intersubjective embodied dimensions interview process, this...

This article contributes to the geographical literature on reflexivity by asking what it means take researcher’s unconscious seriously in ethnographic research, and proposes psychoanalysis as a theoretical methodological resource for researching dimensions of fieldwork. I begin describing three moments from my fieldwork with panhandlers drug users that evince operation unconscious. then review psychoanalytic work social sciences where researcher becomes object analysis situate debate...

Harm reduction is generally presented as the compassionate, pragmatic alternative to prohibitionist drug policy. This article examines harm in relation debates over revanchist city urban geography, arguing that it should be understood an ambivalent social I advance a psychoanalytic conceptualization of ambivalence explain often contradictory character contemporary policy, including reduction. Calling attention centrality enjoyment ( jouissance) argue fantasies about Other play crucial role...

There has been no sustained sociological analysis of a near ubiquitous feature psychological laboratory experimentation: the task. Yet task is central in arranging means by which phenomena are isolated and brought into experimental scientist’s purview. As scientific objects, states such as mind wandering daydreaming have made visible experiments that draw on (sometimes) sharp distinction between what it to be either “on task” or “off task”––which entails long history subject attend her task,...

Abstract This article contributes towards the project of critically theorizing drug addiction by drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, anthropology, and geography. I argue that social bonds—that is, people's relationships to other people society—are central phenomenon addiction, present three accounts bond. The first is classical psychoanalytic account which holds use essentially masturbatory: a solitary pleasure involves turning away being with others drug. second, associated...

Following the lead of artists and scholars in Black, feminist, psychoanalytic, queer studies geographies, this special issue editorial call for greater scholarly attention to conscious unconscious emotional, psychic, affective dimensions urban gentrification. While geographical scholarship frequently gestures gentrification as an scene, these connections are generally suggested rather than developed. We argue that psychoanalytic affect theories have richly developed conceptual explanatory...

This commentary explores the politics of Dragos Simandan’s (2019) proposal to expand concept situated knowledge beyond social difference. I argue that while an expanded conception knowledges is welcome, focus on de-politicized instances ends up blunting theory’s critical edge. Any attempt difference must ensure we do not lose sight ways our embodied positions within fields power affect production knowledge.

A key tenet of critical health research is that individual symptoms must be considered in light the social and political contexts shape or, some cases, produce them. Precisely how oppressive forces give rise to symptoms, however, remains challenging theorize. This article contributes debates over interpretation through a close reading case Leon, an African American man struggling with addiction crack cocaine. Leon presented complex illness narrative which his was clearly product structural...