Episode 218 - Drug Ethnographies with Danielle Kabella
Hooray! It's the first of our episodes highlighting the work of our 2022 Pass The Mic travel grant recipients! Danielle Kabella works with communities in New Mexico that have historically had a complex relationship with substance use, recovery, and the legal system. Danielle's work focuses on recovery efforts of the past 50 years as a way to understand the changing relationship between recovery science, medicine, and the power of a community to re-shape that relationship.
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Find Danielle on Twitter @dmkabella
To learn more:
Drug Ethnographies
Michael Agar (1973) Ripping and Running: A Formal Ethnography of Urban Heroin Addicts
Philippe Bourgois (2003) In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
& (2009) Righteous Dopefiend * is a photo essay
Angela Garcia (2010) The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande
Todd Meyer’s (2013) The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy
Kelly Knight (2015) Pregnant. Addicted. Poor
Helena Hansen (2018) Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries
& (2023) Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Heroin in America
Natasha Schull (2014) Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas * sts focused
Nancy Campbell (2020) OD: Naloxone And The Politics Of Overdose *not an ethnography, but a history of technology and very STS focused
Harm Reduction & other Organizations Danielle works with:
Casa de Salud (NM) * 1st ethnographic study with McNair Program
Trans Queer Pueblo (AZ) bringing access to HRT/ primary care for migrants, etc.
Episode thumbnail courtesy of STS Borderlands