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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Rethinking “community”: addiction, recovery, and globalisation


The notion of “community” is central to the thought, philosophy, and practice of the emerging recovery movement.


This presentation explores how the processes of globalisation engender reconfigured conceptions of “community” and how this reconfiguration impacts on the recovery movement.


To do this, I will argue that the capitalisation of the addict in the treatment economy (a corollary of the first-cause of globalisation, the free market) has resulted in the subjugation of “recovery knowledge” and that grassroots communities of recovery represent key sites of resistance against this totalising, reductive trend.

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