Acknowledgements
Introduction: Doing drug research in more-than-human worlds
Chapter 1: Approaching bodies: ‘Becoming-with’
- Affect, matter, practice
- Becoming-with as method
- Rhizomatic analysis or becoming moved
- Ethicopolitics or doing research with care
Chapter 2: Thinking bodies: Conceptualising pleasure and not-so-pleasurable concepts
- Conceptualising addicted pleasure: A modern paradox
- Making concepts: Keeping pleasure and addiction apart
- Pleasure has never been free: ‘As soon as I start to think about it…’
- Pleasure-in-tension: ‘…It’s a really lovely feeling but my god the crap that comes with it’
Chapter 3: Practicing bodies: ‘On the tilt’: The injecting event and the fragility of pleasure among other affects
- ‘Keeping the glass upright’: A relational achievement
- Fragile connections: Directing bodies towards pleasure
- ‘The glass drops’: Slipping assemblages
- Balancing ‘the speedball’: ‘A different drug altogether’
Chapter 4: Living bodies: Vital becomings: Becoming-normal, -other and –blocked with drugs
- Becoming ‘normal’
- Becoming-other
- Becoming-blocked: ‘You don’t grow’
Chapter 5: Intervening-with bodies: Troubling recovery: Mediating habits and doing more than harm reduction
- Becoming-with drugs as habit
- ‘The recovery agenda’
- More-than-harm-reduction: Working with habits
Conclusion: Empowering bodies: Making bodies better?
Appendix
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