2015 - Addiction in the Making
In Vol. 44 of the Annual Review of Anthropology, W. Garriott and E. Raikhel released their review article "Addiction in the Making". The authors tell us,
"In this review, we draw on a particular slice of this rich literature: work examining how addiction—as an object of knowledge and intervention—is produced, enacted, circulated, and remade through the “looping effects” (Hacking 1986) linking experts and people “living under the description of ‘addict’” (Martin 2013, p. 287). (ibid. 478)"
The review gets into denaturalizing the addiction concept (ibid. 479), biosocial entanglement and the turn to materiality (ibid. 481), therapeutics and the transformation of subjectivities (ibid. 482), punitivity and the governance of addiction (ibid. 484) and concludes with problems on how to address addiction in the making (ibid. 486).
