Righteous Dopefiend: Volume 21 Tapa blanda - 2009
de Philippe Bourgois; Jeffrey Schonberg
Descripción de contraportada
"Based on over a decade of field research, Righteous Dopefiend is a searing portrait of the lives of homeless injection drug users in San Francisco and an analysis of the powerful forces that shape their lives. ...This book brings into our visual and moral field the plight of those whom we have condemned to the margins, documenting the struggle that is the condition of their daily existence and exploring the social structures that enforce their suffering." --Angela Garcia, The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande
"Calling this book ethnography would be like calling The Wire a cop show: what comes roaring out of its pages is almost as visceral and devastating as spending a night in 'the hole' itself."--Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums
"Plunge beneath the surface of America's no-man's lands. Find in the dead-end alleyways, storage lots, and overgrown embankments the terrifying but strangely ordered world of homeless heroin injectors. This book will test your cultural relativism to destruction, but along the way you will learn a great deal about destitution, about homelessness, about addiction, and about violence at all levels. These dopefiends are 'made in America'."--Paul Willis, author of Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs, and co-founding editor of Ethnography
"Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg provide a riveting narrative of the daily struggles for survival of homeless people with a physical and emotional addiction to heroin. The authors' poignant account of these experiences features sophisticated analytic themes that enable them insightfully to integrate discussions of agency and moral responsibility on the part of homeless addicts with an analysis of the powerful structural forces that shape the addicts' lives. Righteous Dopefiend is a must-read."--William Julius Wilson, author of More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
"Bourgois and Schonberg deliver luminous images and intimate portraits of unforgettable Dickensian characters--a host of late-modern hobos, hustlers, dumpster divers, and sweet-talking jivers--whose addiction consigns them to lives of public ignominy and private pleasures transacted under the concrete freeway overpasses of a totally indifferent San Francisco. This tough book is a must-read for all."--Nancy Scheper-Hughes, author of Death Without Weeping
"If Pierre Bourdieu, George Orwell, and Walker Evans had met in a homeless encampment under a San Francisco highway, they could not have produced a more penetrating portrait of America's urban outcasts than Righteous Dopefiend. Fusing ethnography, photography, and social theory, Bourgois and Schonberg take the reader on the frantic roller coaster ride of daily subsistence among a clique of indigent heroin addicts. This searing anthropology of everyday violence in the underbelly of the American metropolis will challenge social scientists and public health experts, stun lay readers, and shame public officials oblivious to the social dereliction their failed policies are spawning."--Lo�c Wacquant, author of Urban Outcasts and Punishing the Poor
Detalles
- Título Righteous Dopefiend: Volume 21
- Autor Philippe Bourgois; Jeffrey Schonberg
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición [ Edition: first
- Páginas 392
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of California Press, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2009-05-29
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520254985 / 0520254988
- Peso 2.23 libras (1.01 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.44 x 7.16 x 0.9 pulgadas (23.98 x 18.19 x 2.29 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Northern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: San Francisco, California
- Library of Congress subjects Marginality, Social - United States, Drug addicts - United States - Social
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2007050924
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Choice, 02/01/2010, Page 0
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 06/12/2009, Page 6
- Publishers Weekly, 04/13/2009, Page 40
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