Anthropology of “the flow”: reflections on addiction in the context of crack cocaine
The biomedical concept of addiction cannot handle the attraction of the crack consuming scenes that goes far beyond the need to use a drug to relieve the craving. An anthropology of the “flow” – as the movements and trajectories that surround the consumption of crack cocaine are called – allowed me...
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| author | Ygor Diego Delgado Alves Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira |
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| description | The biomedical concept of addiction cannot handle the attraction of the crack consuming scenes that goes far beyond the need to use a drug to relieve the craving. An anthropology of the “flow” – as the movements and trajectories that surround the consumption of crack cocaine are called – allowed me to reflect on the motivations for the existence of cracolândias (urban zones dominated by the sale and use of crack cocaine), and to question certain dimensions of so-called drug addiction. Over the course the study, I consider pleasure and suffering in terms of their social dimensions, such as the satisfaction of sharing in the company of other crack users, or the shame that the drug’s stigma provokes. The connections between parças (roughly, “homies”) and the relationships established on the street allow the substance’s desired effects to come to fruition while also teaching users different modes of living in and perceiving the city. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a399a6cd04a84f47b52e6466a00237962022-12-22T03:33:42ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaINTERthesis1807-13842019-02-0116112114210.5007/1807-1384.2019v16n1p12130261Anthropology of “the flow”: reflections on addiction in the context of crack cocaineYgor Diego Delgado Alves0Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira1Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SPUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SPThe biomedical concept of addiction cannot handle the attraction of the crack consuming scenes that goes far beyond the need to use a drug to relieve the craving. An anthropology of the “flow” – as the movements and trajectories that surround the consumption of crack cocaine are called – allowed me to reflect on the motivations for the existence of cracolândias (urban zones dominated by the sale and use of crack cocaine), and to question certain dimensions of so-called drug addiction. Over the course the study, I consider pleasure and suffering in terms of their social dimensions, such as the satisfaction of sharing in the company of other crack users, or the shame that the drug’s stigma provokes. The connections between parças (roughly, “homies”) and the relationships established on the street allow the substance’s desired effects to come to fruition while also teaching users different modes of living in and perceiving the city.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/57567EtnografiaCrackDependênciaCracolândiaFluxo |
| spellingShingle | Ygor Diego Delgado Alves Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira Anthropology of “the flow”: reflections on addiction in the context of crack cocaine INTERthesis Etnografia Crack Dependência Cracolândia Fluxo |
| title | Anthropology of “the flow”: reflections on addiction in the context of crack cocaine |
| title_full | Anthropology of “the flow”: reflections on addiction in the context of crack cocaine |
| title_fullStr | Anthropology of “the flow”: reflections on addiction in the context of crack cocaine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anthropology of “the flow”: reflections on addiction in the context of crack cocaine |
| title_short | Anthropology of “the flow”: reflections on addiction in the context of crack cocaine |
| title_sort | anthropology of the flow reflections on addiction in the context of crack cocaine |
| topic | Etnografia Crack Dependência Cracolândia Fluxo |
| url | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/57567 |
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